Quotes About Self-discovery

The environment itself will teach the child, if every error he makes is manifest to him, without the intervention of a parent of teacher, who should remain a quiet observer of all that happens.

We think we learn from teachers, and we sometimes do. But the teachers are not always to be found in school or in great laboratories. Sometimes what we learn depends upon our own powers of insight.

Be your own teacher. Let life write your textbook.

I accept relationship as my primary teacher about myself, other people, and the mysteries of the universe.

Cultivate your garden. Do not depend upon teachers to educate you... follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony.

A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.

It's not the job of the teacher to save a child's soul; it is the teacher's job to provide an opportunity for the child to save his own soul.

No teacher, preacher, parent, friend, or wise man can decide what's right for you.

For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves and whatever instruction fails to do this is effort spent in vain.

loneliness is a great teacher and a master test of character

Just as novels have come to be seen as narratives of identity, so too has politics become, for many, a search for personal authenticity, a journey of self-discovery.

Ana (it is I)

I felt all of existence swelling in my veins. Letting my umbrella drop, I flung back my head to open myself to the wind and the suns. It was as though in the course of one night I had cast away the emptiness I had so long held in my arms.

Tridib often said of her, the inventions she lived in moved with her, so that although she had lived in many places, she had never travelled at all.

It was late December 1938, and since then I have never been abroad, except maybe in my thoughts. And I shall never go. It's not because the Land of Israel is so wonderful, it's because I now believe that all journeys are ridiculous: the only journey from which you don't always come back empty-handed is the journey inside yourself.

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You might even say I loved my punishment of solitary confinement. Whoever doesn't need other human beings, Father quoted Aristotle, must be a god or an animal. For hours on end, I enjoyed being both. I didn't mind.

Amulya Malladi

How strange that venturing away from accepted wisdom was the very path by which she found herself

Who am I? Oh, yes: I'm the kind of person who doesn't like fiction, country music, or cilantro. We use these defining truths to help us stay in the lines of ourselves. We think we have to hold on to these labels, we feel comfortable holding on to these labels, but it turns out the labels are removable, you can peel them right off.

The worst kind of brokenness is the kind that you don't know you have.

But I was no longer sacared. I could see what was inside me. -Lindo

I was no longer scared. I could see what was inside me.

I felt stuck in the bottom of a wishing well. I was desperate to shout what I wanted, but I didn't know what that was. I knew only what it wasn't. The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan