Quotes About Self-discovery

That he's no one. And for a person who is no one to become someone is more important than anything else.

Si a la mujer la sabes educar, bien. Si no la sabes educar, déjala correr, que te hará daño.

Krása, kterou mÄ›la Cerullová odmali?ka v hlavÄ›, nenaÅ¡la cestu ven, Grecová, celá se jí vrazila do obli?eje, do prsou, do stehen a do prdele, do míst, kde rychle uvadne a je to, jako bys ji nikdy nemÄ›la.

What was I like, really?

Ano, sta?ilo zatáhnout za nit, aby si ?lovÄ›k mohl dál hrát se záhadnou postavou mojí mámy, tu ji obohatit, tu ji ponížit. Ale uvÄ›domila jsem si, že už necítím potÃ…â"¢ebu to dÄ›lat, a pohnula jsem se v paprsku svÄ›tla pÃ…â"¢esnÄ› tak, jak se mi vždycky zdálo, že se pohybuje ona.

No quiero ser así, me decía, especialmente en el duermevela; sin embargo, esa era yo, y percatarme de que no conseguía manifestarme más que de ese modo —áspera, criticona— me impulsaba a veces no a corregirme, sino, con un placer perverso, a ser peor.

cítila jsem, že tohle je m?j ?as, m?j rozbahnÄ›ný život, v nÄ›mž mi to místy jeÅ¡tÄ› klouže.

Lila was happy, and she was drawing me deeper and deeper into her fierce happiness, because she had suddenly found, perhaps without even realizing it, an opportunity that allowed her to portray the fury she directed against herself, the insurgence, perhaps for the first time in her life, of the need - and here the verb used by Michele was appropriate - to erase herself.

On the other hand I wasn't really depressed. I felt, rather, as if I had left myself somewhere and was no longer able to find myself: I was worn out, that is, by movements that were too quick and barely coordinated, by the urgency of one who is searching everywhere and has no time to waste.

el diario me provocaba un afán de verdad. Pensaba que en la escritura no tenía sentido contenerse, de ahí que escribiera

I simply decided once and for all to liberate myself from the anxiety of notoriety and the urge to be a part of that circle of successful people, those who believe they have won who-knows-what

Even as a child, he said, I knew I wasn't what the others thought but not what I thought, either. I said to myself: I'm another thing, a thing hidden in the veins, it has no name and waits.

What we were at the beginning is only a vague patch of colour contemplated from the edge of what we have become.

Become. It was a verb that had always obsessed me...I wanted to become, even though I had never known what. And I had become, that was certain, but without an object, without a real passion, without a determined ambition.

How foolish to think you can tell your children about yourself before they're at least fifty. To ask to be seen by them as a person and not as a function. To say : I am your history, you begin from me, listen to me, it could be useful to you.

Me pides algo terrible: que me recuerde a mí misma cuando ya me había olvidado. Para sobrevivir en mi reino de sombras había cerrado la puerta a la memoria.

Deshacerse de sí mismo es lo más difícil del mundo, a menos de tener vocación de suicida. ¿Habría posibilidad de llegar a otra Bárbara que no le pesara tanto ni le provocara ese dolor?

La finalidad de la vida no es prosperar sino transformarse. Cuando uno se lanza a lo desconocido se salva.

Soy yo la que no me convengo.

Jednak kiedy udaje si? w uczciw? podró? w g??b siebie, zmuszony jest stwierdzi?, ?e jest tam tak mroczno, i? nie bardzo wiadomo, gdzie cz?owiek trafi?... Mo?na tak dla zabicia czasu, ale ten ucieka na sam nasz widok.

I've learned that life is very tricky business: Each person needs to find what they want to do in life and not be dissuaded when people question them.

I want to keep smashing myself until I am whole.

You draw closer to truth by shutting yourself off from mankind.

The only person who can tell you, who you are, is just you.