Quotes About Self-discovery

We have let Eros mean slavery, but Eros also has the power to set us free. We must demand the right to depict women's lives as we know them, not as we might like them to be. We must stop applying political prescriptions to creativity.

What is the arc of the plot of one's life? I want! I want!

Adolescents, malgré les données d'intelligence et de tempérament, nous sommes en grande partie fabriqués par notre éducation, notre milieu, nos parents ; adultes, nous nous fabriquons par nos choix.

Tu agonises parce que tu as tout recouvert, tes émotions, tes problèmes, ton histoire. Tu ne sais pas qui tu es, donc tu ne te construit pas à partir de toi

DoÅ›wiadczenie jest Å›wiecÄ…, która oÅ›wietla wyÅ'Ä…cznie tego, kto jÄ… trzyma.

The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born when we die - although it is the tragic fate of most individuals to die before they are born.

Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows 'what he wants,' while he actually wants what he is supposed to want. In order to accept this it is necessary to realize that to know what one really wants is not comparatively easy, as most people think, but one of the most difficult problems any human being has to solve. It is a task we frantically try to avoid by accepting ready-made goals as though they were our own.

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.

If I am nothing but what I believe I am supposed to be—who am I?

When a person feels that he has not been able to make sense of his own life, he tries to make sense of it in terms of the life of his children. But one is bound to fail within oneself and for the children. The former because the problem of existence can be solved by each one only for himself, and not by proxy; the latter because one lacks in the very qualities which one needs to guide the children in their own search for an answer.

Faith, in the having mode, is a crutch for those who want to be certain, those who want an answer to life without daring to search for it themselves.

Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.

Life is richness in many forms. We should all find our own.

It's funny, but your parents can give you everything in the world, but they can't teach you what to do with it. That, you have to learn for yourself.

Somehow her later years had become a mirror of her lonely childhood.

I cry until I evaporate.

As soon as we left the ground I knew I myself had to fly!

Man muss sich im Leben auch mal selbst ans Steuer wagen, statt immer nur Passagier zu bleiben

I, Hasan the son of Muhammad the weigh-master, I, Jean-Leon de Medici, circumcised at the hand of a barber and baptized at the hand of a pope, I am now called the African, but I am not from Africa, nor from Europe, nor from Arabia. I am also called the Granadan, the Fassi, the Zayyati, but I come from no country, from no city, no tribe. I am the son of the road, my country is the caravan, my life the most unexpected of voyages.

Highest miracle is to discover who you are – the ultimate possibility.

Raise you awareness and cultivate your uniqueness.

Searching outside of you is Samsara (the world). Searching within you leads to Nirvana.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.