Quotes About Self-discovery

Perhaps it is the nature of man not to wish to know too much about his own nature.

Give up all the other worlds except the one to which you belong. Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to learn anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you.

In a sense you are always more clearly aware than I can be of what I am in the world; and when I confront my own face, there may be a moment of fear, as I try to fit the person whom I know so well to this thing that others know better

One day you must tell me your full and complete story, unabridged and unexpurgated. You must. We will set aside some time for it, and meet. It's very important. Maneck smiled. Why is it important? Mr. Valmik's eyes grew wide. You don't know? It's extremely important because it helps to remind yourself of who you are. Then you can go forward, without fear of losing yourself in this ever-changing world.

though the subject rejects the notion of repeating it elsewhere later on, he sometimes discovers in himself a kind of diffusion of amorous desire; he then realises he is doomed to wander until he dies, from love

After all, vagabonding involves sacrifices, and its particular sacrifices are not for everyone.

I want to be alone. I don't want to be alone. My days pop like bubbles. There is no one to remember the things that have happened to me.

So like I said, what are you running from?" "From being like people, I guess.

then what I know now. Which phrase is used a lot.

identified, and

Generally I avoid having things to do. Clearly a reaction against literal regimentation earlier in my life. The result is I have no particular place to go, and all the time in the world to get there.

They were learning how to perform their privacy.

They say experience is the best teacher, but I'll be damned if I know what it teaches you.

Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.

I have tried in my way to be free.

Your own species ends up with a name like that when you get to choose it

If you really want to understand the social world, if you really want to understand yourself and others, and, beyond that, if you really want to overcome many of the obstacles that prevent you from living your fullest, richest life, you need to understand the influence of the subliminal world that is hidden within each of us.

The more I discover what I am, the more miserable I get; the more I discover who God is and who God made me, the happier I become.

Atunci când o persoan? investeÈ™te inconÈ™tient È™i în mod excesiv energie, timp È™i atenÈ›ie într-o tr?s?tur? de caracter dominant?, acea tr?s?tur? devine centrul personalit??ii ei, iar masca È™i persoana devin una È™i aceeaÈ™i.

Who was I now—woman or man? That question could never be answered as long as those were the only choices; it could never be answered if it had to be asked.

I felt as though I was rushing into a burning building to discover the ideas I needed for my own life.

When my alarm jangled in the morning, I awoke feeling small and terrified. I couldn't find myself in my own life—there was no memory of me that I could grasp. There was no place outside of me where I belonged. So every morning I willed myself back into existence.

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

I could tell you my adventures – but it's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.