Quotes About Self-discovery

You are inclined to get muddled, if I may judge from last night. Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.

But let yourself go. You are inclined to get muddled, if I may judge from last night. Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them. By understanding George you may learn to understand yourself. It will be good for both of you.

She was no longer examining life, but being examined by it; she had become a real person.

Her air and sky were theirs, not the timorous millions' who own stuffy little boxes, but never their own souls.

There was simply the sense that she had found wings, and meant to use them.

Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them. By understanding George you may learn to understand yourself.

There are moments when the inner life actually "pays," when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.  Such moments are still rare in the West; that they come at all promises a fairer future.

I must get away, ever so far. I must know my own mind and where I want to go.

To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.

?nsan çok yaln?zken, bir tane daha kendinden do?uruyordu içinde, 'Korkma!' desin diye…

Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life. And don't be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it's their problem. Whenever you interact with people, don't be there primarily as a function or a role, but as the field of conscious Presence. You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.

You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.

Find a path in life that you can embrace and enjoy rather than something that you're expected to do. That's what makes life interesting.

the high peaks with small expeditions, or entirely alone. I guess you need some traumatic experiences or your life stagnates. A shock can actually prove very beneficial.

I'd be happy to be taken as a woman - and that's what I was initially trying to do when I started throwing on dresses and stuff. But that wasn't going to happen because everyone kept calling me sir. So I thought I'd change the method and just start wearing what I wanted to wear.

would like us to do something unprecedented," Baldwin wrote in 1967, "to create ourselves without finding it necessary to create an enemy.

You know, it is for this reason that all this black, white, Armenian, Turkish, Greek, Jewish, etc., etc., etc., never carried any meaning for me. The question is how to fix ourselves. Give birth to ourselves. To make us live free of all these swaddling clothes, free of these habits.

For, know that each soul constantly meets its own self. No problem may be run away from. Meet it now!

I have to live with myself and so, I want to be fit for myself to know.

I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.

It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

First, anyone who seriously intends to become a philosopher must "once in his life" withdraw into himself and attempt, within himself, to overthrow and build anew all the sciences that, up to then, he has been accepting. Philosophy wisdom (sagesse) is the philosophizer's quite personal affair. It must arise as His wisdom, as his self-acquired knowledge tending toward universality, a knowledge for which he can answer from the beginning, and at each step, by virtue of his own absolute insights.