Quotes About Self-discovery

Hay quien no encuentra su corazón hasta que no pierde la cabeza.

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

Let us face ourselves. We are Hyperboreans!

This cup wants to become empty again, and Zarathustra wants to become human again.

First, one has the difficulty of emancipating oneself from one's chains; and, ultimately, one has to emancipate oneself from this emancipation too.

Uno va dal prossimo perché cerca se stesso, e l'altro perché vorrebbe perdersi. Il vostro cattivo amore per voi stessi fa della solitudine una prigione per voi.

Éste es mi camino, ¿dónde esta el vuestro?», así respondía yo a quienes me preguntaban «por el camino». ¡El camino, en efecto, no existe!

With the new morning, however, there came unto me a new truth: then did I learn to say: Of what account to me are market-place and populace and populace-noise and long populace- ears!

One must have chaos and frenzy within oneself to give birth to a dancing star.

Ready must thou be to burn thyself in thine own flame; how couldst thou become new if thou have not first become ashes!

the one who had lost the world attains its own world

I say unto you: one must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. I say unto you: you still have chaos in yourselves.

adventurers and circumnavigators of that inner world which is called "human being

In the end one has to do everything oneself in order to know a few things oneself: that is, one has a lot to do. But a curiosity of my type remains after all the most agreeable of all vices—sorry, I meant to say: the love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth.—

What is the seal of liberation?— No longer being ashamed in front of oneself.

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

Many married women who have deliberately spurned the hour of childbearing are unhappy and frustrated. They never discovered the joys of marriage because they refused to surrender to the obligation of their state. In saving themselves, they lost themselves!

The more you are led by God's love, the more you become yourself and it is all done without ever losing your freedom.

How the modern world needs a Socrates, who used to walk into the market place of Athens asking people questions in order to make them discover themselves! True, he was put to death for unmasking others, but he left the world the heritage of "know thyself." Guide to Contentment, 80

Si vas a volverte loco, vuelve te solo

os seres humanos não nascem para sempre no dia em que as suas mães os dão à luz, mas que a vida os obriga uma e outra vez ainda a parirem-se a si mesmos.

car c'est souvent en errant seule dans les villes inconnues que je suis le mieux arrivée – mais à quelque chose d'autre que ce que je pensais chercher et qui fut presque toujours meilleur.

Once you get yourself out of the way, you can see everything the way it is. Your self isn't blocking the world from you, once you have sidestepped its shadow.

Maybe it's because I'm more confident of my own powers now, not so afraid of losing myself, of being molded by other people's needs of me, of being overwhelmed by them, that I can live in those strange, green days again and willingly be that girl.