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Quotes About Self-discovery

Oynayal?m albay?m, tekrarlara dü?mekten korkmadan oynayal?m. As?l tekrarlara dü?elim ki, içimizi kemiren ?eytan? her f?rsatta rezil edelim.
~ Unknown
Yazma i?ini b?rakt?m. Esasl? bir adam olsayd?m b?rakmazd?m. Her davran???m?n yans?nda, ba?ka bir heyecana kapt?r?yordum kendimi. Heyecan m?? Bak bunu unutmu?tum, diye m?r?ldand?m. (Yaln?z olunca insan daha rahat davran?r: m?r?ldan?r.)
~ Unknown
Kimseye söyleyemeden, içimde kald?, kayboldu." dedi?im dü?üncelerin, duygular?n aynas? olsun. Kimse dinlemiyorsa beni -ya da istedi?im gibi dinlemiyorsa- günlük tutmaktan ba?ka çare kalm?yor. Can?m insanlar! Sonunda, bana, bunu da yapt?n?z.
~ Unknown
Leven Thumps, you are incredibly more than you believe yourself to be." - Colver
~ Obert Skye
She means the devil with people who say you're anything but what you are.
~ Octavia Butler
Your desires,           Whether or not you achieve them           Will determine who you become.
~ Octavia E. Butler
What are you?" I whispered."What are we to you?" She lay still, rested her head on her topmost coil. "You know me as no other does," she said softly. "You must decide.
~ Octavia E. Butler
God is neither good nor evil, neither loving nor hating. God is Power. God is Change. We must find the rest of what we need within ourselves, in one another, in our Destiny.
~ Octavia E. Butler
A tree Cannot grow In its parents' shadows.
~ Octavia E. Butler
You aren't flawed. I noticed even before I went to my parents that there was a wholeness to you—a strong wholeness. I don't know whether you'll be what your parents wanted you to be, but whatever you become, you'll be complete. You'll have within yourself everything you need to content yourself. Just follow what seems right to you.
~ Octavia E. Butler
What is it in young boys that makes them want to wander off alone and get killed? They get two chin hairs and they're trying to prove they're men.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Opening and closing her jacket, her hand touched the long scar across her abdomen. She had acquired it somehow between her second and third Awakenings, had examined it fearfully, wondering what had been done to her. What had she lost or gained, and why?
~ Octavia E. Butler
Às vezes, eu escrevia coisas porque não conseguia dizê-las, não conseguia entender meus sentimentos em relação a elas, não conseguia mantê-las presas dentro de mim. Era um tipo de escrita que eu sempre destruía depois. Não era para ninguém.
~ Octavia E. Butler
A tree Cannot grow In its parents' shadows.
~ Octavia E. Butler
In order for me to understand who I am, I must begin to understand who she was. That is my reason for writing and assembling this book. It has always been my way to sort through my feelings by writing.
~ Octavia E. Butler
No one behind, no one ahead. The path the ancients cleared has closed. And the other path, everyone's path, easy and wide, goes nowhere. I am alone and find my way.
~ Octavio Paz
Ser uno mismo es, siempre, llegar a ser ese otro que somos y que llevamos escondido en nuestro interior, más que nada como promesa o posibilidad de ser.
~ Octavio Paz
When I am alone, I love the wide roads. There, I have conversations with myself. My free steps move easily and my body leaves my spirit free of obstacles; it discourses, it reasons, it presses me with questions.
~ Odilon Redon
The prison is not outside, but inside each of us. Perhaps we simply don't know how to live without it.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
female friends over the age of forty who have left their boring husbands in search of some excitement.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
A prisão não está no exterior e, sim, no interior de cada um de nós. É possível que não saibamos viver sem ela.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Resztki zostawionej tu osobowo?ci poprzedniego go?cia trzeba zwalczy? swoj? bezosobowo?ci?. Po to jest Przemiana. Resztki odbi? tamtej twarzy w lustrze nie tylko musz? zetrze? szmatk?, ale tak?e zape?ni? lustro moj? bia?o-ró?ow? beztwarzowo?ci?. Tamten zapach zostawiony przez roztargnienie i po?piech musz? zag?uszy? moim bezzapachem.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
What a methodology! It is tacitly assumed that people don't know themselves, but that if you furnish them with questions that are bright enough, they'll be able to figure themselves all out. They pose themselves a question, and they give themselves an answer. And they'll inadvertently reveal to themselves that secret they know nothing of. And that other assumption, which is terribly dangerous—that we are constant, and that our reactions can be predicted.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
To wcale nie jest proste. Nie wystarczy zwyk?e sprz?tanie. Resztki zostawionej tu osobowo?ci poprzedniego go?cia trzeba zwalczy? swoj? bezosobowo?ci?. Po to jest Przemiana. Resztki odbi? tamtej twarzy w lustrze nie tylko musz? zetrze? szmatk?, ale tak?e zape?ni? lustro moj? bia?o-ró?ow? beztwarzowo?ci?. Tamten zapach zostawiony przez roztargnienie i po?piech musz? zag?uszy? moim bezzapachem.
~ Olga Tokarczuk