Quotes About Self-discovery

I figured out I'm bisexual. I have sex twice a year.

an axiom of sorcery: If you come to know yourself no one else can know you

with luck, you can improve yourself in the happiest fashion, which is to learn something you thought you already knew.

have of themselves. Hiding behind the crowd may be because of shyness. It may also be because of self-esteem issues. Similarly, being the centre of attention may be because of self-assurance or a way of masking the real self. Bringing these aspects to the client's attention through this visualisation may be a first step towards 'unmasking' and finding the true self.

This visualisation empowers clients to express their feelings on paper. Clients can write and say things, bringing hurts into the light that may have been buried for many years. It is important to remember that it is the client's letter, and each client can interpret this visualisation in his or her own unique way.

This relaxing visualisation enables clients to look at their identity and uniqueness, becoming aware of where they have come from and where they are going. It may take clients a while to interpret and make their own, perhaps thinking it through and working on it between sessions. Once they have discovered their own unique song, it can help them move on in a positive way.

The Lonely Ballerina paints a scene of a client who is stuck and unable to move forward. As the story progresses, the ballerina realises that she can take control of her life and ownership of her future. This story gives clients

It is the same for your life. Be flexible and explore different behaviors and strategies to unlock what you truly want in life or who you are destined to be. At

Peter feasts off people-he finds himself so totally boring that he's got to escape from himself and find refuge and security in another personality-that's the only form of communication left open to him.

Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves and where they dream.

Let me tell you a secret: there is no such thing as an uninteresting life One day you must tell me your full and complete story, unabridged and unexpurgated.We will set aside some time for it, and meet. It's very important. Maneck smiled. 'Why is it important?' It's extremely important because it helps to remind yourself of who you are. Then you can go forward, without fear of losing yourself in this ever-changing world.

I feel renewed and encouraged as I concentrate less on finding the correct answers to my problems and more on how I am treating myself along the way. As I learn to take care of myself, answers will come.

There is...a golden alpine field within each of you, a place where you are bathed in approval, not because of anything particular you have done, but simply because of your own sacred nature. If you had a president who could show you the route to that place, what a difference it would make in your lives, and in the culture of the world!

Already, he was not entirely Trelkovsky any more. But what was Trelkovsky? How could he learn the answer to that? He had to discover himself, so that he could be sure he would not wander from the right path. But how?

The real payoff of a yoga practice, I came to see, is not a perfect handstand or a deeper forward bend—it is the newly born self that each day steps off the yoga mat and back into life.

Vagabonding involves taking an extended time-out from your normal life—six weeks, four months, two years—to travel the world on your own terms.

vagabonding is simply a matter of making work serve your interests

They are spending plenty of time and money on the road, but they never spent enough of themselves to begin with. Thus, their experience of travel has a diminished sense of value.

Explore your own higher latitudes," wrote Thoreau in Walden. "Be a Columbus to whole new continents within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

vagabonding begins the moment you stop making excuses, start saving money, and begin to look at maps with the narcotic tingle of possibility.

We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard, in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment no matter what. —GEORGE SANTAYANA, "THE PHILOSOPHY OF TRAVEL

Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.

In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself." -Rollo May