Quotes About Self-discovery

Don't change who you are, change your perspective about life.

The greatest challenge in life is to discover who you are and the second greatest challenge is being happy, what you have.

One of the best things you can do in life is to embrace who you are. Once you do that NOTHING can stop you. You have found the greatest gift that has been given. The gift of self importance.

There is a source of incredible power within you. When you discover the truth of who you are, connect with it and embrace it, this truth can empower you to achieve major positive and lasting life changes.

You must always be yourself, and do things at your own pace. Someday, you'll catch up.

When you spend too much time concentrating on everyone else's perception of you, or who everyone else wants you to be, you eventually forget who you really are. So don't fear the judgments of others; you know in your heart who you are and whats true to you.

I asked myself whether marriage with Albertine would not spoil my life, as well by making me assume the burden, too heavy for my shoulders, of consecrating myself to another person, as by forcing me to live in absence from myself because of her continual presence and depriving me, forever, of the delights of solitude.

Me vuelvo hacia mi alma. Ella es la que tiene que dar con la verdad.

unforeseen situations force us to enter into deeper contact with ourselves, the painful dilemmas in which love places us at every instant, instruct us, disclose to us successively the matter of which we are made.

Il devient dangereux au contraire quand, au lieu de nous éveiller à la vie personnelle de l'esprit, la lecture tend à se substituer à elle, quand la vérité ne nous apparaît plus comme un idéal que nous ne pouvons réaliser que par le progrès intime de notre pensée et par l'effort de notre cœur...

But what we call experience is only the revelation to our own eyes of one of our own character traits, which recurs naturally, and recurs all the more powerfully if we have already on some previous occasion brought it up into the clear light of consciousness, so that the spontaneous reaction which had guided us the first time becomes reinforced by all the suggestions of memory.

Benim nazar?mda bir hiç oldu?unu zannetti?im ?ey, demek ki asl?nda bütün hayat?m, her ?eyimdi. ?nsan kendini ne kadar az tan?yor!

Na realidade, todo leitor é, quando lê, o leitor de si mesmo. A obra não passa de uma especie de instrumento óptico oferecido ao leitor a fim de lhe ser possível discernir o que, sem ela, não teria certamente visto em si mesmo. O reconhecimento, por seu foro íntimo, do que diz o livro, é a prova da verdade deste [...].

Enquanto a leitura for para nós a iniciadora cujas chaves mágicas abrem no fundo de nós mesmos a porta de moradas em que não conseguiríamos penetrar, seu papel em nossa vida será salutar

Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself.

in my cowardice I became at once a man,

Conocer sus historias la ayudará a ser mujer. Eso sí, le pediré que no se identifique solamente con una, porque puede ser fuente de impensables dolores.

Ya instalada, miré a mi alrededor y no pude reprimir un suspiro de satisfacción respaldado por los rayos de sol blancos y calientes que invadían el lugar. ¿Puede haber una sensación más excitante (y atemorizante a la vez, lo reconozco) para una mujer que el sentirse fuera del alcance de los demás, de los cercanos que la aman pero que simultánea y sutilmente la ahogan?

I hated myself for being so weak. I seemed to have no real personality of my own. Gaby was the mirror in which I saw myself.

El amor le hace a uno sentirse bien- Si no es así, no es amor. -Pero parece amor -Si sientes dolor muchas más veces que felicidad, no es amor. Es algo más que te obliga a estar encerrada en tu propia cárcel, incapaz de ver que la puerta hacia la libertad está delante de ti abierta de par en par.

Cuando buscas la belleza en el universo, comienzas también a ver tu propia belleza.

I finished my 20s with a PhD in fusion energy, and I discovered I was useless.

I can at once become happy anywhere, for he is happy who has found himself a happy lot. In a word, happiness lies all in the functions of reason, in warrantable desires and virtuous practice.

Look within. Within is the fountain of the good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.