Quotes About Self-discovery

You are given the form, but you must write the sonnet for yourself.

Was she strong enough to allow both of them to be themselves? Bahama had instilled in her an honoring of promises, but she could not keep her promise unless she was willing to allow Nik to be Nik, not a projection of someone who could fill in all her empty spaces, heal all her wounds.

I've looked for an image in someone else's mirror, and so have avoided seeing myself.

Maybe I don't like being different," Meg said, "but I don't want to be like everybody else, either.

So the challenge I face with children is the redemption of adulthood. We must make it evident that maturity is the fulfillment of childhood and adolescence, not a diminishing; that it is an affirmation of life, not a denial; that it is entering fully into our essential selves.

When have you been most you, the very most you?

In my tadpole stage I was delivered to Metron Ariston and transmogrified, and here am I. My name is Sporos, by the way, and I do not like your thinking names like mouse-creature and shrimp-thing at me.

All I knew was that at almost fifteen it's very difficult to be satisfied with the age you are, because you aren't really any age.

She knew that the freedom was in herself, just as the prison had been.

A journal is not a diary, where you record the weather and the engagements of the day. A journal is a notebook in which one can, hopefully, be ontological.

Mother," Meg pursued. "Charles says I'm not one thing or the other, not flesh nor fowl nor good red herring." "Oh for crying out loud," Calvin said, "you're Meg, aren't you? Come on and let's go for a walk.

Oh, girl, not woman, more than child, Which of us two is the more wild? So

Women, healed and whole, will find undreamed resources in themselves.

Much testing, much reflecting, much living must intervene before we can say, 'My soul is my own.

San?r?m sonunda büyüdüÄŸümü ve herkesi memnun etmenin imkâns?z olduÄŸunu anlad?m. Ben de onun yerine kendimi mutlu etmeye karar verdim.

It is easier, of course, to find dignity in one's solitude. Loneliness is solitude with a problem.

I feel I can give you everything without giving myself away, I whispered in your basement bed. If one does one's solitude right, this is the prize.

My dream is to walk around the world. A smallish backpack, all essentials neatly in place. A camera. A notebook. A traveling paint set. A hat. Good shoes. A nice pleated (green?) skirt for the occasional seaside hotel afternoon dance.

One is congenitally a woman; one tries not to be, but it's a question of one's humanity.

It's a lot like what people do when they are in psychoanalysis: they spend years analyzing their unconscious with the help of a trained therapist until they begin to get a sense of how their mind works. Heylmun and Civille have done the same thing — only they haven't psychoanalyzed their feelings; they've psychoanalyzed their feelings for mayonnaise and Oreo cookies.

I sit and feel lonely. Sitting and feeling lonely is something I am a spectacular success at. I can do it for hours. Everyone is good at something.

It is my experience that if a person practices self discovery with intent, they will be successful. Success is an outer sign that they are channeling energy correctly.

Where there is yoga, there is prosperity, success, freedom and bliss.

Success is a trophy, a title, something gained, attained or retained. Fulfilment, true happiness, contentment.... bliss is the gift of the self-realised. That is the real prize.