Quotes About Self-discovery

The idea of a secret that will be revealed always results in one of two scenarios: death and destruction, or self-discovery and recovery beyond our wildest dreams of unification. And in the greatest of sagas, both at the same time.

You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when.

Think about what you love, Hildegard. Trust it. That's where your talents lie and that's where you'll find happiness, even here.

The fear, too, is a fear of yourself: a completely dualistic and contradictory fear. On the one hand, it is the fear that you do not have what it takes to make it, and on the other hand, a possibly greater fear that you do have what it takes, and that by definition you therefore also have a responsibility to do something really big.

I would disappear, only to come home reinvented. I would be unrecognizable upon my fleeting returns. This fantasy was realized, but not quite the way I had intended. In deciding to remake myself, I managed to avoid the fact that I would also, by definition, have to erase what self there was to begin with. I began to wonder, many years later, if total erasure had been my intent all along.

Self-knowledge is the foundation of a practical spirituality, a spirituality that ripples outward from the self into the world.

We put an extraordinary amount of effort into how we appear, or wish to appear, trying frantically to construct a sense of self out of how we are seen from without. But who are we from within? What makes us who we are? If we stop for a moment and think, Of what do I consist? what is the answer we hear?

The sense that we are only the sum of our parts—whatever we achieve, however we appear, whatever we own, however we try to prove ourselves—is not a good sense. It's an existential crisis: Do I even exist? If you take away the masks I wear, is there only blank space underneath?

For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves.

The great omission in American life is solitude. . . that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incinerator of the spirit.

So much of a child's life is lived for others. . . . All the reading I did as a child, behind closed doors, sitting on the bed while the darkness fell around me, was an act of reclamation. This and only this I did for myself. This was the way to make my life my own.

Sometimes you sit around Don't know what to do, don't know where you're going to All you have to be is you What else can you do.

The complete answer is not in these pages, but there's enough to get you started, Mary. You're bright, sensitive, intense, and driven. That's who you are,

For them, health, or well-being, is more than getting by, existing, or making do. Knowing thyself means puzzling out how identity and fulfillment, meaning and destiny, are inextricably linked.

because often the counterpart to high potential is feeling trapped and unsure while not knowing why.

I'm sorry. This is diary, not enlightenment.

If you feel lost, disappointed, hesitant, or weak, return to yourself, to who you are, here and now and when you get there, you will discover yourself, like a lotus flower in full bloom, even in a muddy pond, beautiful and strong.

escribió sobre el autoconocimiento y sugirió que a veces somos el peor obstáculo para nuestra propia mejora: vemos a dónde deberíamos ir, que es donde queremos ir, pero aun así no somos capaces de tomar la decisión y emprender el camino. Está

Could this be my own face, I wondered. My heart pounded at the idea, and the face in the mirror grew more and more unfamiliar.

I like looking for myself in the whitest of pages. I like finding evidence of myself there, after being told my footprints did not exist on that sand. I think the work of the great white writers is important, but I think it's most important when it's negotiating me and my people, because I am as arrogant and selfish a reader as any other.

Ne kadar farkl? görünmeye çal??san da nas?l biri oldu?un bir gün mutlaka ortaya ç?kar. (syf. 10)

Puoi negare la tua natura quanto vuoi, tanto quella ti riacciuffa al volo!

A bird that fears falling off of a tree branch is ignorant of its gifts.

Define yourself; you have the monopoly on your life's dictionary.