Quotes About Self-discovery

Ako je psihoanaliza efikasna, to nije zato što pacijent prihvata nove teorije o razlozima svog nezadovoljstva, ve? zato što zahteva kapacitet za to da bude autenti?no zbunjen; on se ?udi otkri?u dela sebe, o ?ijem postojanju nije imao predstavu.

Joy, then, is what we experience in the process of growing nearer to the goal of becoming ourselves.

Going away is not always so simple—when one takes oneself along.

Er drehte die Dusche an. Das kühle Wasser strömte über seine Haut. Er atmete tief und trocknete sich ab. Der Trost der kleinen Dinge. Wasser, Atem, abendlicher Regen. Nur wer allein war, kannte auch sie.

?ovek se hvata samo u svojim vlastitim snovima - a nikad u tu?im. ?ovek se hvata ili gubi.

Adev?rata fericire o g?seÈ™ti în pacea interioar?!Este aproape acelaÈ™i lucru È™i totuÈ™i mai este.MulÈ›umirea poate exista oricum,f?r? efort, f?r? lupt?.Chiar exist? de cele mai multe ori.Dar pacea interioar? o cucereÈ™ti totdeauna prin lupt?, dup? multe încerc?ri.Un eu purificat,înÈ›eles.

In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself in a dark wood where the straight way was lost. —DANTE ALIGHIERI, The Divine Comedy: Canto I (Carlyle-Wicksteed Translation, 1932)

In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself in a dark wood where the straight way was lost. —DANTE ALIGHIERI, The Divine Comedy: Canto I

Be true to yourself, to your best self.

Wow. Getting sassy, aren't you? I am, aren't I? I asked in amazement. I didn't know I knew how to do that.

Jess, I've got no business judging anyone. But I can offer you some advice if you don't mind. Sure. Though my palms start to sweat anticipating what he might say. Never ask someone to tell you who you are. You tell them.

Who do you become when you've lost sight of who you are, but the false you isn't one you can pretend to be anymore?

I love my mother for all the times she said absolutely nothing.... Thinking back on it all, it must have been the most difficult part of mothering she ever had to do: knowing the outcome, yet feeling she had no right to keep me from charting my own path. I thank her for all her virtues, but mostly for never once having said, I told you so.

There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, 'Yes, I've got dreams, of course I've got dreams.' Then they put the box away and bring it out once in awhile to look in it, and yep, they're still there. These are great dreams, but they never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, 'How good or how bad am I?' That's where courage comes in.

We fear our highest possibility (as well as our lowest ones). We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments…. We enjoy and even thrill to the godlike possibilities we see in ourselves in such peak moments. And yet we simultaneously shiver with weakness, awe and fear before these very same possibilities.

When you start to live outside yourself, it's all dangerous.

There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down a a typewriter and bleed. E. Hemmingway We don't write to be understood, we write to understand......... Love yourself. Dare to dream. Live on purpose!

He was too simple to wonder when he had attained humility. But he knew he had attained it and he knew it was not disgraceful and it carried no loss of true pride.

But are there not many fascists in your country? There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the times comes.

You did not do so badly for something worthless,' he said to his left hand. 'But there was a moment where I could not find you.

But neither bull force nor bull courage lasted, she knew now, and what did last? I last, she thought. Yes, I have lasted. But for what?

Cruise around by yourself and see what happens to you.

you have to discard the old moralities, values and belief structures, you have to look for what is authentic in yourself.