Quotes About Self-discovery

The reward for all high performance must be sought within itself or sought in vain.

What had amazed him, what amazed him still, even after all these years, was how quickly he'd stepped out of himself. He'd slipped off every convention and moral that had defined him, a great cowl that fell to the floor with the unfastening of a single closure. The person beneath it was someone he barely recognized.

How the hell should I know what we deserve?

He wondered what it would be like to grow up in one place and stay there all your life, to forever be defined by your childhood relationships, to never know if you got to be the person you wanted to be, to always be the person you were when you were young.

I want to unfold. Let no place in me hold itself closed, For where I am closed, I am false. Rainer Maria Rilke

Everyone has flaws, even if you can't see them.

Within our own way, we all know the answers to the questions that we seek … it is quite simple. We have the knowledge before we come here to our earthly existence. We have been given the way forward and the answers that we need; we just have to look deep within ourselves and know that they are there. Similar to reading hidden messages that are encrypted, we have only to uncover the meaning of the code to unlock a vast amount of knowledge and information. Ben

Meditation is the key that opens the door to all the knowledge and understanding in life—certainly to our current lives and also to the many other lives we have led before. What

Is my name dorothy? No Then why do u think munchkins could help me?

Are you nervous about no longer being a big fish in a small pond?

It was my journey and i had to do it without help. I had to find my own strengths, face my own fears.

The next morning, for the first time, Jonas did not take his pill. Something within him, something that had grown there through the memories, told him to throw the pill away.

Forgetting her promise of no questions, Littlest suddenly asked, Might we be human? But Fastidious did not reply.

What you are is a question only you can answer.

I had to discover and teach myself all kinds of tricks to get people to respond to the inside of me, and not the outside.

Once, she had been her parents' daughter. Then great, unlucky Ias's wife. Her children's mother. At the last, her mother's keeper. Well, I am none of these things now. Who am I, when I am not surrounded by the walls of my life?

It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be.

And . . . do you have any supporting evidence for your explanation of yourself? Certainly. Miles stared thoughtfully into the air, as if about to pull his words from the thinnest part.

Am I to form myself into the pattern of a perfect Barrayaran maiden like trying to work a magic spell for absolution? I could spend my whole life working out that ritual and not come to the end of it, damn it!

She was alone, uninhabited, she was herself again, after five months of that strange doubled existence.

You will rage and you will cry and you will ask God why. But you will always find yourself again, and you will never sell your soul to a man who cannot love you. If he cannot love you with all his heart and all his spirit as well, then you are better off without him.

One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.

Every man contains within himself a ghost continent.

My meditation objective is to be calmer and to assist with my practice in aikido and krav maga. I generally sit between 10 and 20 minutes every day in the morning. What I have found is that if a meditation method works for you, then use it. I have seen some other styles of practice that I have initially thought nonsense, such as focusing on dolphin sounds, Indian shaman chanting, and so on. But if at the end of the day it works for you…then it works.