Quotes About Self-discovery

tuve la sensación de que estaba viendo dos caras al mismo tiempo, la que conocía, la que era mi primer recuerdo, y otra, una segunda que estaba escondida bajo la superficie

I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975.

me brinda cierto consuelo la idea de un patrón, de un esbozo de mi vida que va cobrando forma, como una fotografía en un cuarto oscuro, una historia que se va desvelando poco a poco y viene a confirmar todo lo bueno que siempre he deseado ver en mí mismo. Ese relato me sostiene.

But it is important to know this, to know your roots. To know where you started as a person. If not, your own life seems unreal to you. Like a puzzle…Like you have missed the beginning of a story and now you are in the middle of it, trying to understand.

children s are not the coloring books where you can fill your favorite colors

It's how you were made. And that's not such a bad thing because your saving grace is that you've never lied to yourself about it. Not about that.

No longer did she look like a shy little maid who was trained to censor her thought before it reached her mouth. These past few days had turned her into a reserved yet intelligent young woman.

It was because of the way you treated me that I learned to be my own person, have my own opinion, stand my ground. It's at least partially because I survived you that I'm the person I am today.

There's a great feeling of relief and catharsis when you manage to get something that's been buried or hidden out onto the page. And such a process, whether or not it eventually results in a poem, helps to integrate that part of the self.

I suppose I want him to be happy," she said at last. "Whatever in life makes him happy, I want him to have that. I don't care what it is, as long as he grows up to be good and true to himself.

Think of it, Dad. What if I have it in me to do that, and I don't try?

It's my fault too. For a long time, I wanted to be rescued, I realized that. But not anymore. You don't have to protect me all the time now.

Rachel, you summon demons. You're good at it. Get over it, then find a way to make it work for you. It's not going to go away.

Silly little vamp, afraid of her feelings.

Emojin stopped, turned, and nailed him with her glare. "Because she's making this one piece all she'll ever need to show the world who she is instead of coloring her body with random images and needing thirty expressions to show her soul.

Rachel, tienes que dejar de comerte la cabeza o lo echarás todo a perder-dijo su voz de seda gris con la lluvia de fondo-. La cuestión no es si podemos hacerlo, sino si prodremos vivir con la idea de no haberlo intentado.

Refuse to follow where you're led (Dancing) The line begins to blur When you look too far ahead.

Living a lie tore at one's being and leaked out in the oddest of places.

For the first time in a long time, I knew who I was and where I was going. And right now, I was going…this way. Happily into the ever-after.

It was as if a part of me had died, accepting that I couldn't be who I wanted, so I had to work at making who I was someone I could live with.

She walked through the city, trying to get away from herself.

Our current economics has not yet answered any of these questions. But why should it? Do you ask your calculator what to do with your life? No. You have to figure that out for yourself.

Because she didn't want any of them to know just how unhappy she was being single. Especially since Serena knew a good number of women who preferred being single and that many of them were happily living their lives to the fullest.

But Fia was very young and pitifully thin, by no means underfed, but undeveloped, short on muscle, short on work. What was she to do with herself, this talented girl? Her parents could afford to keep her at home or to keep her abroad, whichever she preferred, and whether she was here or there she was nice, she was charming, and she never went upstairs two steps at a time, no, never.