Quotes About Self-discovery

when men at last accept the fact that they cannot successfully lie to themselves, and at last learn to take themselves seriously, they discover previously unknown and often remarkable recuperative powers within themselves.

Loneliness is such an omnipotent and painful threat to many persons that they have little conception of the positive values of solitude, and even at times are very frightened at the prospect of being alone. Many people suffer from "the fear of finding oneself alone," remarks André Gide, "and so they don't find themselves at all.

Finding the center of strenghth within ourselves is in the long run best contribution we can do to our fellow man

But attempts to evade anxiety are not only doomed to failure. In running from anxiety you lose your most precious opportunities for the emergence of yourself, and for your education as s human being.

Countless times a week, furthermore, he receives proof in his consulting work that when men at last accept the fact that they cannot successfully lie to themselves, and at last learn to take themselves seriously, they discover previously unknown and often remarkable recuperative powers within themselves.

Yaln?zl?k bir ba?lamda dürüstlüktür. Dürüstlükle kendinizi genel kitleden ay?r?r, konformizmden kurtulursunuz.

When in a person's development courage begins to emerge—that is, when the person begins to break out from the pattern of devoting his life to getting others to admire him—an intermediate step generally occurs.

He had a good dream, to come out number one." But the other son accurately sees the contradiction which such an upheaval of values leads to, "He never knew who he was."*

it soon becomes evident that their underlying problem is that they have no definite experience of their own desires or wants. Thus they feel swayed this way and that, with painful feelings of powerlessness, because they feel vacuous, empty.

the person with neurotic anxiety endeavors to run away from some elements within herself or himself. This can be accomplished only by dissociating these elements, which sets up inner contradictions.

Our task, then, is to strengthen our consciousness of ourselves, to find centers of strength within ourselves which will enable us to stand despite the confusion and bewilderment around us.

Kendini adama ve ?üphe aras?ndaki ili?ki hiçbir ?ekilde ula??lmaz de?ildir. Kendini adama ?üphe içermedi?i zaman de?il, ?üpheye ra?men oldu?unda en sa?l?kl?d?r.

Hiçbir yetenek inkar? cezas?z kalmaz ve yetene?in inkar?na te?ebbüsün ad? nörozdur.

Ölümle (insan?n kendi varl???n?n hiçbir yank?s?n? bulamad??? bir dünyayla) yüz yüze gelebilme yetisi (cesareti) geli?menin önko?uludur, insan?n kendi bilincine varmas?n?n ve kendisini bulmas?n?n önko?ulu.

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Mon je ne me suffit pas.

Every man who is truly a man must learn to be alone in the midst of all the others, and if need be against all the others.

No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books, either to discover or to control himself.

No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books.

A person does not grow from the ground like a vine or a tree, one is not part of a plot of land. Mankind has legs so it can wander.

Wandering is the activity of the child, the passion of the genius; it is the discovery of the self, the discovery of the outside world, and the learning of how the self is both "at one with" and "separate from" the outside world. These discoveries are as fundamental to the soul as "learning to survive" is fundamental to the body. These discoveries are essential to realizing what it means to be human. To wander is to be alive.

I was forced to wander, having no one, forced by my nature to keep wandering because wandering was the only thing that I believed in, and the only thing that believed in me.

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When this is all over, my writing will add up to the sum total of me. The choices I make with my writing have a lot to do with myself as an unfolding personality, so that in the end your writing is really your destiny. It's a question of finding that central thing that's yours to say and yours alone.