Quotes About Self-discovery

According to one of these terrible stories, the source of Daubmannus' erstwhile youthful cheerfulness and spirit, despite his affliction, was the fact that, hunched and bent as he was, he could reach down and suck at himself, and so he learned that the male seed tastes like a woman's milk. This was how he kept renewing himself.

We are all born with genius. It's like our fairy godmother. But what happens in life is that we stop listening to our inner voices, and we no longer have access to this extraordinary ability to create poetry.

Noa didn't care about being Korean when he was with her; in fact, he didn't care about being Korean or Japanese with anyone. He wanted to be, to be just himself, whatever that meant; he wanted to forget himself sometimes.

If you want to realize yourselves all your pet illusions must be unmasked.

I just want ambitious teenagers to know it is totally fine to be quite, observant kids. Besides being a delight to your parents, you will find you have plenty of time later to catch up.

I just want ambitious teenagers to know it is totally fine to be quiet, observant kids. Besides being a delight to your parents, you will find you have plenty of time later to catch up.

If my childhood, teens, and twenties were about wanting people to like me, now I want people to know me. So,

After six months of hardship and going to therapy three times a week, Sandy's now elated. She realized—as has almost everyone I know who has been left or broken up with—that, by divorcing her, her husband relieved her of the job of eventually leaving him. As my mom has said, when one person is unhappy, it usually means two people are unhappy but that one has not come to terms with it yet. Sandy hadn't realized how unhappy she was until he was gone.

be yourselves, don't be other person... come on O Ameerah al-Munawarrah

A good master leads you to the true master within. Only that master, who is your own higher self, can adequately answer all questions.

That is why spiritual progress is slow: not because no one will tell us the secrets, but because we ourselves must overcome sentiment and fear before we can grasp it.

Our subjectivity is a mirrored, spiked casket. When will we see that all we have done is surround ourselves with our own illusions? Only when we realize our true nature does the casket disappear.

Em persegueixo més ençà dels sentits perquè hi ha sempre algun íntim espai de mi que em manca.

HOME NOU Neix una nova edat de tu i de mi que a cada instant ens fa el viure més clar; amb tu reprenc el goig de caminar, i en tu i per tu confio en el destí. No em sé ni em vull si tu no em fas costat; la ment em fuig cap on et trobes tu. Prem-ne com sóc: desvalgut, pobre i nu, i fes-me l'home nou que he somiat.

Por fin era yo haciendo de yo y mirando con mis ojos la carretera, los árboles, la puesta de sol. Respiré aliviado. Volvía a reconocerme. Pensé en que yo siempre había usado la motocicleta para alejarme del grupo, para ser individuo.

It was always to free up some part of themselves that never would've come to light. Now they could burst free. And this part of themselves that was freed pointed directly toward where they would feel at home in the world.

I try to become more humble and more myself with every year. There was a while when I got famous where I was so confused and my head was spinning.

We would much rather be undefined than ordained in traditions that don't fit our curves.

I was young, still so young, that I thought my lack of wholeness was somehow my fault. I had no idea everyone feels this way—that the most essential part of growing up is figuring out where your empty places are and learning how to fill them by, and for, yourself.

Ya no me sentía completa. Pero entonces me di cuenta con gran pesar de que en el fondo nunca me había sentido completa. Y esa atroz reflexión me detuvo en seco. Era joven, tanto que de alguna manera era culpa mía que estuviese incompleta, pensé. No sabía que todo el mundo se siente así, que la parte esencial del desarrollo de las personas consiste en detectar cuáles son nuestros espacios vacíos y aprender a llenarlos uno mismo.

I had no idea everyone feels this way—that the most essential part of growing up is figuring out where your empty places are and learning how to fill them by, and for, yourself.

I went home early to study my apartment before the class. I wanted to look at everything through her eyes. I do this before I bring someone new into my life; I try to get a sense of who I am so that I can make it easier for them to know me.

I had a joint once and I didn't feel right for a whole year.

and I guessed he was constructing the perfect question for me, a fantastic question that I would have to rise up to, drawing from everything I knew about myself and mythology and this black earth.