Quotes About Self-discovery

If you want to know more about yourself, turn to Jesus. When

the end of your praying is not to inform God, as though he knew not your wants already; but rather to inform yourselves, to

One recognizes one's course by discovering the paths that stray from it.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Au milieu de l'hiver, j'ai découvert en moi un invincible été.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

The only way to know yourself is to be, which means to forget all that you think you are. In the Bible, God says, "Be still and know that I am God." This is what I mean by simply 'be.' This statement could easily, without loss, be reduced to, "Be still and know," or just "Be still," or, as we have just said, "Be." Being is knowing, knowing is stillness, and this still knowing, which is being without limit, some people call God.

Don't waste your time asking somebody else's question.

Each patient carries his own doctor inside him. They come to us now knowing this truth. We are at our best when they give the doctor who resides within each patient a chance to go to work.

The doctor of the future will be oneself.

Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside.

These are the maps we make of ourselves, The foods and mountains, the world, The stars, the air we are for each other— These are the measure. We are ourselves, Every inch a mile for each other. My friend, that's all. And it is everything. We used to be somebody else, One here, one there, but now together We are today, and will be tomorrow.

I was never a keeper of sheep

Al estar rodeado de tanta gente, de estar tan expuesto, de no tener tiempo para aquellos placeres autistas que te alimentan, uno termina por echarse de menos.

Ahí es donde uno aprende y capta si uno se la puede: si uno es capaz de estar en silencio con uno mismo.

No me interesa lo in, no me obsesiona estar on, no cultivo lo cool, no me fascina lo fashion y mi único must es masturbarme; lo friki me da escalofríos. Lo trendy, temblores.

Happiness lies within one's self, and the way to dig it out is cocaine.

Enamorarse a solas es enamorarse del silencio, un silencio con humo y espejos. El amor, si es algo, es dos que se miran. Tú has intentado crear su mirada en tu mágico laboratorio poético. No quejarse si estás quemada y dolorida. En vez de dos ojos salió una sonrisa de desprecio. La que esperabas, sin duda. Pero como era demasiado insoportable revelarte que buscabas la desdicha pura te entregaste falsamente a lo que no buscabas.

Si. Sola. Siempre sola. Lenta, muy lentamente.

I realized once again that what I believed myself to be was an arbitrary deformation, a rational mask floating in the infinite unexplored internal shadows. Later, I understood that diseases do not actually sicken us; they sicken what we believe ourselves to be. Health is achieved by overcoming prohibitions, quitting paths that are not right for us, ceasing to pursue imposed ideals, and becoming ourselves: the impersonal consciousness that does not define itself.

No quieres soltar la rabia ni los recuerdos dolorosos. Los acumulas en tus músculos en forma de contracciones que te dan la sensación de existir. Si los relajas, al desaparecer tu solicitud de ser amado, tus angustias de abandono o tus rencores, te sientes desaparecer. Crees, niño triste, que el sufrimiento es tu identidad.

Por primera vez descubrí la dulzura de ser yo mismo, sin estar deformado por el dolor o el miedo.

Soledad es no saber estar contigo mismo

Soledad es no saber estar consigo mismo.»