Quotes About Self-discovery

Dije que sí, aunque sin convicción. Qué cobarde me sentí. Y poco tiempo después, cuántas cosas aprendí a decir y a silenciar, aunque no coincidieran con mis sentimientos. En aquellos momentos aún no habia salido de mi timida inocencia.

Qué extranjera raza la de los adultos, la de los hombres y las mujeres. Qué extranjeros y absurdos, nosotros. Qué fuera del mundo y hasta del tiempo. Ya no eramos niños. De pronto ya no sabíamos lo que éramos.

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

Sur le point de m'en aller, je veux lui poser une question qui résume toutes les autres, une question qu'il n'y a que moi pour poser, sans doute: "Qui êtes-vous?" Et elle, sans hésiter: "Je suis l'âme errante.

Partir pour le pôle intérieur de soi-même.

I strive in relation to other men, to discover the nature, if not the necessity, of my difference from them. Is it not precisely to the degree I become conscious of this difference that I shall recognize what I alone have been put on this earth to do, what unique message I alone may bear, so that I alone can answer for its fate.

Perhaps] I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I've forgotten.

What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less than what one allows others to find.

"Know thyself" — a maxim as pernicious as it is odious. A person observing himself would arrest his own development. Any caterpillar who tried to "know himself" would never become a butterfly.

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves — in finding themselves.

Know thyself! A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly.

Man, strip off thy garments, cover thy head with ashes, run into the streets and dance in thy madness.

cómo es que te pienso, región, y no estoy, cómo fue que te dejaste descubrir así de una, me encerraste en el descubrimiento y me dejaste fuera de ti

Tennis was always sort of a - a learning. It was a vehicle for me to discover a lot about myself. And the things that I sort of discovered at times I not only didn't want to see it for myself but I certainly didn't want millions of people to see it.

That's where you're going to know yourself. On the other side of tired.

Also, now that I know roughly who I am, I want to close my eyes and hide from it.

There's a lot of good waiting for you on the other side of tired. Get yourself tired, Andre. That's where you're going to know yourself. On the other side of tired.

A pochi di noi è concessa la grazia di conoscere se stessi, e finché non ci riusciamo, la cosa migliore che possiamo fare è essere coerenti.

Maybe they're confused because I don't tell them the full story, don't explain my full motivation. I can't, since I'm only slowly becoming aware of it myself. I play and keep playing because I choose to play. Even if it's not your ideal life, you can always choose it. No matter what your life is, choosing it changes everything.

The event from which each of us is entitled to expect the revelation of his own life's meaning-that event which i may not yet have found but on whose path I seek myself- is not earned by work.

And I felt more like me than I ever had, as if the years I'd lived so far had formed layers of skin and muscle over myself that others saw as me when the real one had been underneath all along, and I knew writing- even writing badly- had peeled away those layers, and I knew then that if I wanted to stay awake and alive, if I wanted to stay me, I would have to keep writing.

Perché uno deve stare al gioco, se sa che il gioco fa schifo? Non è questione di coerenza astratta, è questione di non dimenticarti chi sei.

Dance is a place I go to know myself and the world experientially and intellectually.

First you have to lose your debts; as long as you're in debt, you're not free," he explained. "Then you have to get some breathing space so you can go in a new direction, but above all you need to know what you want from life.