Quotes About Self-discovery

Whatever you have forgotten, you can remember. Whatever you have buried you can unearth. If you are willing to look deep into your own nature, if you are willing to peel away the layers of not-self you have adopted in making your way through the tribulations of life, you will find that your true self is not as far removed as you think.

It's impossible to write about yourself when you're hiding.

Everything falls apart so you can begin rebuilding yourself and your new reality.

I worked through memories like weeping wounds. I wrote tedious accounts of petty conflicts and read them aloud to people. I removed layer after layer of rot.

Searching out a painful image, going over it and over it in my mind, raking its sharp edges over my open psychological sores. My mind generates the million and one questions I ask in order to avoid asking the only one that matters. Can you save me? At the time I believe my thoughts are real.

He is climbing the spiral staircase of the soul of Gormenghast, bound for some pinnacle of the itching fancy - some wild, invulnerable eyrie best known to himself; where he can watch the world spread out below him, and shake exultantly his clotted wings.

You will find yourself, as he did. But that will not mean it is easy. There are few things easy in life that are worth the doing.

A viagem não começa quando se percorrem distâncias, mas quando se atravessam as nossas fronteiras interiores. A viagem acontece quando acordamos fora do corpo, longe do último lugar onde podemos ter casa.

Cada um de nós foi uma mentira, mas nós os dois fomos verdade.

Também eu me refiz de mentiras, como se a mentira fosse a pele que nos protegesse mas que, de tempo em tempo, nos tivéssemos que desfazer.

A viagem obriga-nos a sermos outros, a descentrarmo-nos, a deslocarmo-nos para fora de nós. a viagem implica a disponiblidade para nos diluirmos, a vontade de sermos apropriados por outras almas.

É que já vivi tudo tão bonito que só quero visitar lugares que estejam dentro de mim.

O medo foi, afinal, o mestre que mais me fez desaprender. Quando deixei a minha casa natal, uma invisível mão roubava-me a coragem de viver e a audácia de ser eu mesmo. No horizonte vislumbravam-se mais muros do que estradas. Nessa altura, algo me sugeria o seguinte: que há neste mundo mais medo de coisas más do que coisas más propriamente ditas.

A viagem não começa quando se percorrem distâncias, mas quando se atravessam as nossas fronteiras interiores.

Fue él quien, cuando yo estaba aún en estado artesanal, me concedió este nombre, mi nombre definitivo: Mariamar. —No solo te doy un nombre —dijo—. Te doy un barco entre mar y amar.

She told me that after a lifetime "in service"—living in other people's houses, taking care of other people's things, and making no judgments—when the time came for her to buy a couch, or a lamp, or dishes, she discovered that she had no tastes or preferences.

It's a dangerous thing, to divide yourself, to break off bits of yourself until there's no solid core. We are, after all, just the sum of our total experiences, each one lying beneath us like a brick in the foundation of a house. To be selective, to block out portions, is to destabilize the very ground on which you stand.

Sometimes you can forget about who you are in a relationship. But you can also be inspired by the person you are with to become something you always knew you wanted to become.

You never choose the way that you're raised, it's just the way that you were raised, but you do get to a certain age where you're in a position to question the expectations of you and the way that you've been formed by your surroundings.

If the wind no longer calls to you, it is time to see if you have forgotten your name.

Write the book description in third person and present tense. As if you're sitting face-to-face with a browser who just asked you what the book is about.

spiritual and mental decolonization.

Don't look for your dreams to come true; look to become true to your dreams.

I saw 'Taxi Driver ' and 'Taxi Driver' kind of saved my life. The scene where Robert De Niro is looking at himself in the mirror saying, 'You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Who the hell else are you talkin' to?' That's the scene that changed my life by changing my attitude about acting.