Quotes About Self-discovery

Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to follow a plan. They never ask if that plan is theirs or if it was created by another person. They accumulate experiences, memories, things, other people's ideas, and it is more than they can possibly cope with. And that is why they forget their dreams.

You discover that your old I, along with everything you ever learned, is absolutely no use at all in the face of those new challenges, and you begin to realize that buried deep in your unconscious mind there is someone much more interesting and adventurous and more open to the world and to new experiences.

I am two women: one wants to have all the joy, passion and adventure that life can give me. The other wants to be a slave to routine, to family life, to the things that can be planned and achieved. I'm a housewife and a prostitute, both of us living in the same body and doing battle with each other.

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.

Talvez seja este o sentido mais exato da alfabetização: aprender a escrever a sua vida como autor e como testemunha de sua história, isto é, biografar-se, existenciar-se, historicizar-se.

No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are.

isso de querer ser exatamente aquilo que a gente é ainda vai nos levar além

Just so you know... Even if I don't break it... alot of people break their own Egg. All those adults walking around with tired faces... they've thrown away the "person they want to be.

Ca te plaît de ne pas te connaître vraiment ? (Amu) — Oui, parce que ne pas savoir… C'est avoir la liberté d'essayer tout ce dont on a envie. (Kûkai)

There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

Sometimes you meet yourself on the road before you have a chance to learn the appropriate greeting. Faced with your own possibilities, the hard part is knowing a speech is not required. All you have to say is yes.

Sometimes you have to show them what they want to see in order to get them to show you who they really are.

It is so important to be conscious even when it makes you realize how much negative stuff you have enjoyed all your life until you realized it was all anti you.

sometimes you meet yourself on the road before you have a to learn the appropriate greeting!

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.

An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls — even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls — without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell." ( America's Medieval Women , Harper's Magazine, August 1938)

Necesitamos las palabras para saber quiénes somos o qué queremos.

No soy el viejo general que huye, ahora lo sé bien, yo soy el sobreviviente de mí mismo. Es de piedra mi paciencia.

The individual we grow to be in the course of our lives is only one of the many we might have been but had to leave behind—lamentable casualties of our inner army.49

If I saw myself erewhile Prisoned, bound, kept out of sight, 'Twas that never on my mind Dawned the truth; but now I know Who I am — a mingled show Of the man and beast combined.

La soledad siempre está ahí. La siento, la toco, hablo con ella. Forma parte de mi vida. La soledad es inevitable. Y ayuda. Me concentro más. Soy más yo cuando convivimos bien apretaditos: la soledad y yo. Nos adoramos. No podría vivir sin la soledad.