Quotes About Self-discovery

Whatever your ethnicity is, in this life you are going to be on a journey to discover who you are and how you feel about yourself.

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

People say that you're going the wrong way when it's simply a way of your own.

I became an actor because it was the only thing I could do. I didn't have any friends, I didn't fit in. But when I started acting everything in my life shifted and I felt happy.

There is no sin worse in life than being boring and nothing worse than letting other people tell you what to do.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life

What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.

Ao que parece, crescer trinta e cinco centímetros é fácil, o difícil é conseguir crescer para além de um rótulo.

And maybe Finch didn't feel like he had a choice, or maybe he wasn't trying to kill himself at all but just going in search of the bottom. But I'll never really know, will I? Then

Writing was what I did best, better than being a daughter or girlfriend or sister. Writing was me. But now writing is one of the things I can't do.

One year later, I grew out of my clothes because, it turns out, growing fourteen inches in a summer is easy. It's growing out of a label that's hard.

Before I die I want to have kids. Live in London...Write a book...Feel good about myself...Live...Play guitar like Jimmy Page. Come up with a song that will change the world. Find the Great Manifesto. Count for something. Be the person I'm meant to be and have that be enough...Matter...Stop being afraid. Stop thinking too much. Fill the holes left behind. Drive...Write. Breathe...Before I die I want to know a perfect day.

Everyone goes on with their lives and maybe I can't keep up. Maybe I don't want to.

Theodore Finch, in search of the Great Manifesto.

Tersesat bukan masalah, asal kau menemukan jalan pulang. Tapi dalam mempelajari semua itu aku melewatkan sesuatu yang lebih penting. Melihat Finch.

Writing was what I did best, better than being a daughter, or girlfriend, or sister. Writing was me. But now writing is one of the things I can't do.

The thing is I don't know what it means to see the world like others do. Maybe I don't recognize myself in a mirror, and maybe I can't exactly tell you what I look like, but I don't think I'd know myself the way I do without prosopagnosia.

me—everything might just explode. I keep my eyes on the road. "You know what I like about you, Ultraviolet Remarkey-able? Everything." "But I thought you didn't like me." And then I look at her. She raises an eyebrow at me. I

Everyone goes on with their lives, and maybe I can't keep up. Maybe I don't want to.

But tonight I'm telling myself I don't have anything in common with this Violet girl, no matter how much I want to, and asking myself if the words between us were really that hot or if maybe it was just me imagining, me in overdrive for a girl I barely know, all because she's the first person I've met who seems to speak my language. A few words of it anyway.

Viel schwieriger ist es, aus einer Schublade herauszuwachsen, in die man gesteckt worden ist.

It was funny what you could do in twenty-four hours. You could start the day in one place, married to a man you sometimes liked but most of the time didn't, and you could end the next day in another place, far away, a single woman chasing her dreams. I thought there was some kind of miracle in that.

Não mais enraizada, mas dourada, fluida. Sinto mil capacidades brotarem em mim.