Quotes About Self-discovery

And here's what I realized: You Sly Girls don't cry when you watch the big-face parties on the feeds, just because you weren't invited. You don't stay friends with people you hate, just to bump your face rank. And even though nobody knows what you're doing out here, you don't feel invisible at all. Do you? No one answered, but they were listening. Fame is radically stupid, that's all. So I want to try something else.

She'd never have to cut herself again. She carries a knife inside herself now, one that was always cutting her. She could feel it every time she swallowed, every time her thoughts strayed.

Once we are lost unto ourselves, everything else is lost to us.

I, for my share, cannot understand," continued she, "how men have made themselves believe that God speaks to us through books and histories. The man to whom the universe does not reveal directly what relation it has to him, whose heart does not tell him what he owes to himself and others, that man will scarcely learn it out of books, which generally do little more than give our errors names.

How many new discoveries does not a person make when on some high point he ascends but a single story higher.

In the end, you are – what you are. Set your hair in a thousand curlicues Place your feet in yard-high shoes, You'll remain forever, what you are.

Quando faltamos a nós mesmos, tudo nos falta.

Unhappily, moreover, on such occasions, a multitude of painful discoveries about my own sex were forced upon me; and, in truth, I was then wiser, as a girl of sixteen, than I now am, now that I scarcely understand myself. Why are we so wise when young,—so wise, and ever growing less so?

Kendi içime dal?yor ve içimde bir dünya buluyorum! Ama böyle yaparken düzenli ve canl? bir güçle de?il, daha çok sezgiyle ve karanl?k bir arzuyla hareket ediyorum. O zaman duyular?m bulan?kla?maya ba?l?yor ve ben, dü?lerin aras?nda dünyaya gülümsemeye devam ediyorum.

Di?imi s?k?yorum ve kendi sefaletimle alay ediyorum; en çok da farkl? geli?mesi imkâns?z olan bu durumu kabullenmemi sal?k verecek kimselerle alay ediyorum. ?çi saman dolu bu kuklalardan beni kurtar!

El talento se nutre en la soledad; el carácter se forma en las tempestuosas oleadas del mundo.

I withdraw into myself, and discover a world, albeit a notional world of dark desire rather than one of actuality and vital strength. And everything swims before my senses, and I go my way in the world wearing the smile of the dreamer.

Cuando el hombre no se encuentra a sí mismo, no encuentra nada.

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

Art?k ne yönlendirilmek, ne te?vik edilmek, ne de co?turulmak istiyorum, bu yürek zaten yeterince f?rt?nal?; benim ninniye ihtiyac?m var, bunu da fazlas?yla Homeros'umda buldum.

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.

How can a man come to know himself? Never by thinking, but by doing. Try to do your duty and you will know at once what you are worth.

Todo nos falta cuando nos faltamos a nosotros mismos.

She had simply shed the mantle of slavery as easily as she had worn it, making him realize that she had never really worn it at all.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me. —Helen Keller

This was in the days when I was making myself over. So difficult it was, to judge just so, to forge the fine discriminations, to maintain a balance--no one could know how difficult. If it had been a work of art I was fashioning they would have applauded my mastery. Perhaps that was my mistake, to do it all in secret, instead of openly, with a flourish. They would have been entertained; they would have forgiven me; Harlequin is always forgiven, always survives.

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

Hell, in my opinion, is never finding your true self and never living your own life or knowing who you are.

Know thyself." Sure, of course, you must. But afterwards, the project is to make yourself a stranger to yourself once more.