Quotes About Self-discovery

A woman growing stronger with age, rather than weaker. A woman who now had more than the faded remnants of youthful prettiness. A woman with a good head, who was finally learning how to use it.

They loved who they'd each been, and who they might have been … not who they were now.

GömleÄŸimi ç?kard?m ve hiç kimseye dönüÅŸtüm, isimsiz, cinsiyetsiz, yaln?zca bir arazide bir köpekle etrafta gezinen bir canl?. Bana bunu sanat getirdi.

It's okay to play turtle for a while, as long as you don't get too fond of your shell.

Guð einn veit, hverju fólki datt í hug að ljúga upp á mig," segir Jörgen, alltaf jafn viss í eigin sök og tilbúinn að skilja sjálfan sig. Enginn skildi Jörgen Jörgensen betur en hann sjálfur.

After the sparkle fades you have to deal with what's left - whether you like what you see or not

If I wanted so much to go-- if everything I wanted in the whole world was on the other side of that door, why didn't I just go?... What kept me frozen there in a despair composed equally of impotent rage and a strange reluctance to shatter some exquisite but invisible structure, neither the shape nor purpose of which was apparent to me? In a words, what the hell was going on?

Being so eager to please, we're not easy to liberate. We're too aware of what others need. Yet our intuition also picks up on the inner question that must be answered. These two strong, conflicting currents may buffet us for years. Don't worry if your progress toward liberation is slow, for it's almost inevitable.

Individuation is, above all, about being able to hear your inner voice or voices through all the inner and outer noise.

Psychotherapy in its broadest sense is a collection of paths toward wisdom and wholeness.

The pursuit of wholeness is really a kind of circling closer and closer through different meanings, different voices. One never arrives, yet gets a better and better idea of that which is at the center.

In the first twenty years we are given our curriculum. In the next twenty we study it." For some of us that curriculum is the equivalent of graduate study at Oxford!

The best service a book can render you is not to impart truth, but to make you think it out for yourself.

I did not know that I had all these feelings inside me. They have never been aroused before. Now they cascade down upon my head and threaten to beat me down to the ground, into the dust.

I think somehow we learn who we really are and then we live with that decision.

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

Actually, an important part of self-knowledge is that it gives one a better realization of the inner strength that can be called upon, of which one may be quite unaware.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

What a mistake, above all, it had been to believe that I couldn't live without him, when for a long time I had not been at all certain that I was alive with him.

She was struggling to find, from inside the cage in which she was enclosed, a way of being all her own, that was still obscure to her.

I concluded that first of all I had to understand better what I was. Investigate my nature as a woman. I had been excessive, I had striven to give myself male capacities. I thought I had to know everything, be concerned with everything. What did I care about politics, about struggles. I wanted to make a good impression on men, be at their level. At the level of what, of their reason, most unreasonable.

As long as one writes only for oneself, writing is a free act by means of which, to use an oxymoron, one secretly opens oneself.

she theorized that a woman without love for her origins is lost.