Quotes About Self-discovery

I will go to campus alone dressed in antique silk slips and beat-up cowboy boots and gypsy beads, and I will study poetry. I will sit on the edge of the fountain in the plaza and write.

Some people think you begin to grow up when you stop trying to figure out who you are.

This way she could feel the rush of warm air, blowing back her hair as if she were a plant. She could go out into the night and become a part of it and forget who she was.

When we don't lay claim to our creative impulse to share what we believe to be true about ourselves and the world around us, an agony festers from self-diminishment, and another thorn is added to the daily existence that encircles us.

When I went back to look for it again I could never find it. It was as if someone had put some kind of glamour, some kind of spell, on that ground, and I felt as if I was walking in circles around it again and again, never able to see what was in front of my eyes. That was how I felt about what happened to me when I turned thirteen. I felt as if I was always circling around my own brain trying to understand.

Part of my being on this earth is to connect with and bring joy to people wherever I am. My hope is that I can encourage people to approach yoga more as a "free-me" practice than a "fix-me" one; a way to discover the truth of who they truly are so they might rest in their true nature, which is basic goodness. -Linda Sparrowe

And what is the use of knowing many things if, when you have learned the dimensions of heaven and earth, the measure of the seas, the courses of stars, the virtues of plants and stones, the secrets of nature, you still don't know yourself?

when she first realized that Robin had a pretty face. Now, as the weight fell away, that face was becoming more than just pretty.

Only something we all know but don't always remember—'Know yourself.' And don't try to be anyone else." "OK!

convinced us that she is telling the truth as she describes the world around her and looks inward, as if her private self is a foreign country whose geography and customs she is struggling to understand so that she can live there.

It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.

You are a child seeking to be a man. When you are a man, you will seek in vain for the child you were.

What are you, child, that you need time to learn about yourself?

When we encounter personal problems, those things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bring out for our logic to scan.

Ve?ina ljudi nije dovoljno jaka za pronalaženje slobode u sebi.

I'll never be a Mentat," he said. "I'm something else…a freak.

I think what a joy it is to be alive, and I wonder if I'll ever leap inward to the root of this flesh and know myself as once I was. The root is there. Whether any act of mine can find it, that remains tangled in the future. But all things a man can do are mine. Any act of mine may do it. —THE GHOLA SPEAKS ALIA'S COMMENTARY

She felt that her body had walked into this place with her soul creeping behind.

No conoceréis al miedo. El miedo mata la mente. El miedo es la pequeña muerte que conduce a la destrucción total. Afrontaré mi miedo. Permitiré que pase sobre mí y a través de mí. Y cuando haya pasado, giraré mi ojo interior para escrutar su camino. Allá donde haya pasado el miedo ya no habrá nada. Sólo estaré yo.

As each day passes, you become increasingly unreal, more alien and remote from what I find myself to be on that new day. I am the only reality and, as you differ from me, you lose reality. The more curious I become, the less curious are those who worship me. Religion suppresses curiosity. What I do subtracts from the worshipper. Thus it is that eventually I will do nothing, giving it all back to frightened people who will find themselves on that day alone and forced to act for themselves.

He realized in this instant why he felt so terrifyingly lonely. He had no group, no place in a hive of fellow-activity, nothing to shield him from personal decisions that might overwhelm him.

Know thyself? Dasein sensed then he couldn't know himself without dying. Death was the background against which life could know itself.

Copilul care refuz? s? mearg? în lesa tat?lui - acesta este simbolul supremei capacit??i a omului. "Nu am a fi ceea ce a fost tat?l meu. Nu am a m? supune regulilor stabilite de tat?l meu sau a crede tot ce-a crezut el. Ca fiin?? uman?, forÈ›a mea const? în aceea c? pot s? aleg singur ce s? cred È™i ce s? nu cred, ce s? fiu È™i ce s? nu fiu.

Penso na alegria que é estar vivo e me pergunto se chegarei a dar o salto interior até a raiz deste corpo e conhecer a mim mesmo como um dia foi. A raiz está lá. Se algum ato meu conseguirá encontrá-la isso continua emaranhado no futuro. Mas todas as coisas que um homem é capaz de fazer a mim pertencem. Qualquer ato meu poderia fazê-lo.