Quotes About Self-discovery

Every good story is about who we are and our struggle to define ourselves.

I was never good at being a boy, but I was always a good student.

The good thing about auditioning is that you get to test yourself and see if you can play this character - you're also auditioning yourself.

I tried to be a good wife, but I was lost in my gilded cage.

aveva già raggiunto quel limite di età, al di là del quale l'uomo in divenire deve affermarsi non solo contro i propri umori, ma anche contro una gigantesca chimera del mondo, che gli fa sentire ad ogni minuto, soffocandolo, la nullità del suo lo appena desto.

No one can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life. There may be countless trails and bridges and demigods who would gladly carry you across; but only at the price of pawning and forgoing yourself. There is one path in the world that none can walk but you. Where does it lead? Don't ask, walk!

The name given me by my mother was, Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey. I, however, had dispensed with the two middle names long before I left Maryland so that I was generally known by the name of Frederick Bailey.

Love of learning is a pleasant and universal bond since it deals with what one is and not what one has.

Alles prüfe der Mensch, dass er Danken für alles lernt und verstehe die Freiheit, aufzubrechen, wohin er will.

you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?

Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.

What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'.

Become who you are!

But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely one, you are going the way to yourself! And your way goes past yourself, and past your seven devils! You will be a heretic to yourself and witch and soothsayer and fool and doubter and unholy one and villain. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes?

Be careful when you cast out your demons that you don't throw away the best of yourself.

I have learned to walk: since then I have run. I have learned to fly: since then I do not have to be pushed in order to move. Now I am nimble, now I fly, now I see myself under myself, now a god dances within me.

No one can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life. There may be countless trails and bridges and demigods who would gladly carry you across; but only at the price of pawning and forgoing yourself. There is one path in the world that none can walk but you. Where does it lead? Don't ask, walk!

So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's.

We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge - and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves - how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves? It has rightly been said: Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also; our treasure is where the beehives of our knowledge are.

The great periods of our life occur when we gain the courage to rechristen what is bad about us as what is best.

Do you want to go along with others? or go on ahead? or go off on your own?...you must know what you want and that you want. Fourth question for the conscience.

I tell you: one must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: you still have chaos in yourselves.

There is one path in the world that none can walk but you. Where does it lead? Don't ask, walk!

There is a false saying, 'Whoever cannot save himself - how can he save others?' But if I have the key to your chains, why should your and my lock be the same.