Quotes About Self-discovery

After my baccalaureate, I signed up for acting lessons; there followed some inglorious years, during which I grew nastier and nastier and, as a consequence, more and more caustic; thanks to this, success finally arrived—on a scale that surprised me.

Es el sufrimiento de ser el que nos hace buscar al otro, como un paliativo; tenemos que superar esa fase para alcanzar el estado en el que el mero hecho de ser constituye en sí una ocasión permanente de júbilo;

Ce sont justement cette répugnance, cet ennui qu'il convient de développer en nous, afin de nous démarquer de l'espèce.

Le ciel étoilé offre une leçon de sagesse à qui sait le regarder : s'y perdre, c'est se trouver.

Chi siamo davvero? E se la verità fosse altrove, diversa rispetto a quello che pensiamo? E se la parte autentica di ognuno di noi fosse nascosta proprio finché ci sforziamo di controllare tutto, perché ci sono tante cose da fare e non possiamo permetterci il lusso di essere, semplicemente essere, stanchi, depressi, svogliato, capricciosi, noiosi, persino sbagliati e dementi, ecco sì, questo: dementi?

Choosing to be an artist . . . is choosing to mine deep caverns. It's like getting lost in the darkness and spending the rest of your life trying to find your way.

To live by grace means to acknowledge my whole life story, the light side and the dark. In admitting my shadow side, I learn who I am and what God's grace means. Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel

Why is it, she said, when you actually do the right thing for once, it doesn't feel good? In fact, it feels so awful you think you are going to die? .... You feel like you are going to die, Patsy, because some part of you is dying.some entrenched tyrant of the soul, and sweetheart, she is not going easy.

Later that evening, Norma Jeane said good night to Bill and returned home. Standing before a mirror she picked up a lipstick and scribbled, 'This is the end of Norma Jeane.' Marilyn Monroe was born.

However, the name Norma Jeane wasn't in the least bit 'star like', so it was decided that it would need to be changed. Ben Lyon told her that she reminded him of the actress Marilyn Miller, and decided he'd like her to be called Marilyn. Monroe was her personal choice, since it was her mother's maiden name.

It takes years for me to trust I know that about myself. A lot of it is because I am so private, and so reluctant to make myself vulnerable.

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The truth hurts, but it will set you free,

I knew what I stood for, even if nobody else did. I knew the piece of me on the inside, truer than all the rest, that never comes out. Doesn't everyone have one? Some kind of grand inner princess waiting to toss her hair down, forever waiting at the tower window. Some jungle animal so noble and fierce you had to crawl on your belly through dangerous grasses to get a glimpse.

Go anywhere you can, because a journey is an adventure, and adventures are how we learn who we really are. Johnathan Cain quoting Mick Fleetwood in Don't Stop Believing

Deal with the demons of your past when they haunt you, don't shy away, instead show them the way. Once and for all look straight in their faces right into their eyes with a will and determination to resolve, breathe them out, and before you, let them dissolve. Don't let your past get you traumatized, deal it with self conviction, liberate yourself and get MickeyMized.

Everyone wishes to either become this or desire to be like that , everyone who runs the race will always remain a rat. No matter what you try and be , one day you will see, that you are a unique fruit from a unique tree. You are a special fruit , be specialized, wake up to your special talent , get MickeyMized.

Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.

Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.

The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.

Hasta que se llora de veras no se sabe si se tiene o no alma.

And the secret of human life, the universal secret, the root secret from which all other secrets spring, is the longing for more life, the furious and insatiable desire to be everything else without ever ceasing to be ourselves, to take possession of the entire universe without letting the universe take possession of us and absorb us; it is the desire to be someone else without ceasing to be myself, and continue being myself at the same time I am someone else...

Only in solitude do we find ourselves and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.

The most important step in emancipating oneself from social controls is the ability to find rewards in the events of each moment.