Quotes About Self-discovery

When this uneasy feeling forms, in a context of awareness, the person is thereby already living beyond the problem, already living in and toward what would be right for her.

Monstrously giving birth to yourself, Admiring yourself and choking on yourself, Are you not, alas, the only tie Between good and evil, earthly pits and paradise? It seems to me that you are always on the boundary.

name, thereby

The part of me that is untouchable today should never have been touched.

The total of what you are is so much greater than what you see reflected in mirrors.

Each person has a literature inside them.

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all of the time.

I am a woman on her way to eat cake.

Can you rework your past, the grit that rubs in you, until it is shiny and smooth as a pearl?

Though it is the hardest thing, to work out one's weight and heft in the world, to whittle down all that I am and give it a value.

Per zio Erwin c'era un sorta di curriculum dell'esistenza in cui le cose da fare erano state stabilite dagli altri. Le soddisfazioni e i piaceri della vita non consistevano tanto nel farle, quanto nello spuntarle dalla lista.

Ja es bÅ«tu tavs vÄ«rietis, es tevi sagr?btu aiz ?upra un izceltu gaism?. Tav?s rok?s kaut kas ir, un tu to zini. Tiec ar to gal?. Tiec gal? ar saviem dotumiem. Uz?emies Å¡o atbildÄ«bu! · -Un ko tad es, jÅ«supr?t, esmu pelnÄ«jusi, Viszi?a kungs? Tu esi pelnÄ«jusi, lai pret tevi izturas k? pret to, kas tu esi. Proti? K? pret princesi. MÅ«sdienu princesi.

Writing down your thoughts is both necessary and harmful. It leads to eccentricity, narcissism, preserves what should be let go. On the other hand, these notes intensify the inner life, which, left unexpressed, slips through your fingers. If only I could find a better kind of journal, humbler, one that would preserve the same thoughts, the same flesh of life, which is worth saving. from "In That Great River: A Notebook," Poetry . Originally Published: June 1, 2010

Jeder Mensch bekommt eine bestimmte Zeit im Kontinuum der Menschheitsgeschichte und jeder bekommt seine Herkunft und bestimmte Eigenschaften vererbt, die alles bestimmen, jedenfalls fast alles, was er sein wird. Mit dem Rest freien Willens kann er sich ein Leben lang herumraufen und versuchen, ihm seinen unverwechselbaren Stempel aufzudrücken und sich von der Hypothek seiner beschädigten Eltern zu befreien.

figuring out who you are is the whole part of the human exprience

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.

Nothing important, or meaningful, or beautiful, or interesting, or great ever came out of imitations. The thing that is really hard and really amazing is to give up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.

She just didn't know who else to be other than the person she was right now,

Soon, I'll be alone in a quiet room where, for the rest of my life, I can float farther and farther out into the world; while my student, charging off the end of every map, falls deeper and deeper into the well of himself. 'Never be afraid to enter an argument you can't immediately see yourself out of.' Can anyone tell me what a tragedy is?

I]f you adapted too much in order to deal with them, you ran the risk of forgetting who you were and you could end up being neither and nothing.

Why?" He stopped pacing and looked at her as if she'd just asked him to count every leaf on every tree in the Old Place. "Because... you're you.