Quotes About Self-discovery

Being a failure at living your own life as best as you can is better than being a success living the life somebody else says you should live.

Success rests with having the courage and endurance and, above all, the will to become the person you are, however peculiar that may be. Then you will be able to say, I found my hero and he is me.

Finding inner success is the best, easiest and infact the only way to achieve and enjoy everything else in life.

Individuality' is the key to success.

In some ways, it's easier to settle for someone else's version of success than to risk falling short at one's own.

Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.

I took the route favoured by all worldly failures and became a spiritual success.

I feel like a big trend is just to model your success off someone else and I don't think that ever works in the long run.

Divorce is never a pleasant experience. You look upon it as a failure. But I learned to be a different person once we broke up. Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success.

Someone once pulled me aside and said it was all right to succeed, and I realised that I knew what failure felt like, but I didn't know what success felt like. I've carried that with me ever since.

Here Edmond was to undergo another trial; he was to find out whether he could recognize himself, as he had not seen his own face for fourteen years. He had preserved a tolerably good remembrance of what the youth had been, and was now to find out what the man had become.

Loin de chez eux, ils s'autorisaient à vivre d'autres facettes de leur personnalité, en jachère, s'affranchissaient des attentes de leurs proches qui les bornaient, du personnage prévisible qu'ils jouaient en société.

Não conheço outra verdade senão a dos meus desejos.

Immobilisé, je me mis à vivre avec moi, ce qui n'était pas dans mes habitudes ; et cette intimité nouvelle me fit découvrir le miracle de se côtoyer réellement, préambule à tout amour réel.

We have not to seek to make ourselves like our progenitors, but to strive to work out that species of greatness and happiness which is our own.

We should not strive to resemble our fathers but should strain to achieve a type of greatness and happiness which belongs to us alone.

The way kids learn to make good decisions is by making decisions, not by following directions.

There's got to be more to life than just living," Foyle said to the robot. "Then find it for yourself, sir. Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts.

Is there never any escaping the junkshop of the self?

I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I'd be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.

I wasn't good company, that was true, and people avoided me, but that was all right. I was too busy dreaming.

Do you ever get the feeling that your life isn't really your own, and you've just sort of let things happen to you?

But rules were never the point. It was finding out who you were.

You're like the weird fucked-up sister of yourself, Shelby. Whereas I'm just an extension of my loser self that anyone could have foreseen. I have followed the path set out before me. You veered.