Quotes About Self-discovery

Und er stand vollkommen frei und warf die Beine. Er strahlte vor Einsicht.

Dagegen kann ich jeden Augenblick beweisen, daß meine Erziehung einen anderen Menschen aus mir machen wollte als den, der ich geworden bin. Den Schaden also, den mir meine Erzieher nach ihrer Absicht hätten zufügen können, den mache ich ihnen zum Vorwurf, verlange aus ihren Händen den Menschen, der ich jetzt bin, und da sie ihn mir nicht geben können, mache ich ihnen aus Vorwurf und Lachen ein Trommelschlagen bis in die jenseitige Welt hinein. Doch

ein Buch muss die Axt sein für das gefrorene Meer in uns.

El aislamiento es una forma de conocernos a nosotros mismos.

C?s?toria este desigur atestarea celei mai masive forme de autoeliberare ?i de independen??.

People have a wild response to something, and they want it. Sometimes people lose themselves.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

The wilderness rescued me. I have been shaped by my experiences in the great outdoors. Feeling comfortable in the wild gave me the confidence to be who I am, not who others want me to be.

I'm not a wildly gifted person; I don't play an instrument or speak another language or have great accomplishments in another field, as many writers do. But writing feels natural to me; the act of it seems to free up my unconscious, so that sometimes I feel that I have access to more ideas and information than my conscious mind could think up.

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

One day, I will tell my story... where I came from and where I am now and how I remained positive.

I spent, whether consciously or unconsciously, most of my career trying to be something other than William F. Buckley's son.

I wrote a very bad play about Prince William when I was 23 in which he went off to the island of Iona to discover himself. It was very long, and audiences should probably be very pleased that the computer it was on blew up.

I'm Serena Williams on the court, but away I have so many different names. I call myself Butterfly.

You can survive tough situations and even turn them to your advantage by acting as if you are the person you want to be. When you act like that person, you can become that person. The hard parts are deciding whom you want to become, being willing to rehearse until you become that person, and forgiving yourself until you do.

A lot of people say they want to get out of pain, and I'm sure that's true, but they aren't willing to make healing a high priority. They aren't willing to look inside to see the source of their pain in order to deal with it.

The women I know who have children and have careers, they seem to be very happy. They love their children and they love their jobs. But happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love.

I want my little girl to tell me who she is so I can encourage her and not impose my desires for her on her life. I want her to dream big and to know that if she is willing to earn it, she can have anything - and become anything.

We really have to be willing to find out who we are instead of rebelling for the equal rights that we've been denied, that we do deserve.

As the body fades - which it will inevitably do as we stay here on the planet - it really behooves us to wake up to who we really are. You can either go along willingly or be dragged, because it will happen.

Success is different for everyone; everybody defines it in their own way, and that's part of what we do in 'Close Up', finding what it was each person wanted to achieve and what their willingness to sacrifice for that was.

I've worked in supermarkets, put tags in baseball caps and provided security during Wimbledon, but I never thought acting would be something I'd be any good at, or make a living from.

I want my little corner of the world where I get to make games where you're not trying to win or lose; you're not trying to get a higher score - you are having unbelievable amounts of fun as you learn about yourself and the world. That's what games can do!

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.