Quotes About Self-discovery

There are days when I still want to dismantle this constructed self of mine. You did it so badly, I think. You lost so much time. And then I tell myself, so what? So what? Go on.

I felt freed to please myself, to find my way as I would, in a world that was much vaster than I had realized before, in which I was but one star-gleam, one wavelet, among multitudes. My happiness mattered not a whit more than the next person's - or the next fish's, or the next grass-blade's! - and not a whit less.

The first time I called myself a 'Witch' was the most magical moment of my life.

If you are a woman and dare to look within yourself, you are a Witch. You make your own rules. You are free and beautiful. You

so often my own emotions were hidden not only from other people but from myself. or perhaps it was the other way round: i was hiding from them.

We are our own terra incognita, the country on maps where dragons lurk.

It is, in other words, in part through painful processes of loss and separation that we arrive at a sense of who we are. Such processes function as "boundary-creating" experiences that build singular and (more or less) self-sufficient psyches.

Ziceam: s? trec neobservat, ascuns adânc, în haina-mi sur?, mustind de taine, de?elat, centaur beat, în suc de mur?. ?i-a?a de bine m-am mascat, c? haina-mi deveni natur?, ?i cenu?iul mi-a intrat în ochi, în nas, în piept, în gur?.

You are strong enough to sing as you wish, not as your pain has forced to. You aren't your hurt. You're other than that. You are not the broken things you've been.

For years, I thought that if I had to be a palindrome, make me kuulilennuteetunneliluuk.

You are strong enough to sing as you wish, not as your pain has forced you to. You aren't your hurt. You're other than that. You are not the broken things you've been.

You are strong enough to sing as you wish, not as your pain has forced you to. You aren't your hurt. You're other than that. You are not the broken things you've been. Look at yourself. You're living, not a singer in the midst of her deathsong.

you do not exist, you cannot hope to grow. That is the tremendous step the child takes, the step that goes from nothing to something.

To stimulate life, leaving it free, however, to unfold itself--that is the first duty of the educator.

I definitely feel more complete than before. There's a void you have when you don't feel you've found the other part of who you are, so I'm in a different place now and that's nice to experience.

La gente se vuelve rara cuando pasa demasiado tiempo sola

A sibling may be the keeper of one's identity, the only person with the keys to one's unfettered, more fundamental self.

The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.

It takes courage...to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives.

veces nos da miedo enfrentarnos con la realidad de nuestra alma. Decía Goethe: «¿Conocerme a mí mismo? Si lo hiciera, saldría corriendo espantado».

I set to work making a place for myself in Society, even if it was not the place Society intended for me.

No matter what you're facing, you have what it takes to figure anything out and become the person you're meant to be.

Envy is often a clue that there is something latent in you that needs to be expressed.

Discovering what you really want saves you endless confusion and wasted energy. Stuart Wilde