Quotes About Self-discovery

When I was a little boy in school I had to dress up as a bunny and there's a picture of me with an annoyed face, and when I saw it, I thought I should name myself 'Bad Bunny.'

Stand-up is cool. In stand-up, you get to learn about yourself if you do it from a thoughtful place.

For years I'd thought my color was black: deep, dark, thoughtful, mysterious. Black, you can hide behind. But now I know it is red.

When I go back and read my journals or fiction, I am always surprised. I may not remember having those thoughts, but they still exist and I know they are mine, and it's all part of making sense of who I am.

When I was in my early forties, I slept with a loaded gun under my bed. I'd become severely depressed in my thirties, and for almost a decade I spiraled down into paranoia, rage, self-loathing, and thoughts of suicide.

As a kid, I was always very shy growing up - I wasn't very good at articulating my thoughts or my feelings. Now that I'm older, I found acting to do that. So it's been an amazing way to sort of express who I am.

Running is something you can do and be alone in your thoughts, and I like that. Maybe I've been a runner my whole life.

I want to see children curled up with books, finding an awareness of themselves as they discover other people's thoughts. I want them to make the connection that books are people's stories, that writing is talking on paper, and I want them to write their own stories. I'd like my books to provide that connection for them.

At the end of the day, my life isn't about other people's work. I've got to stop giving stuff away. I've got my own stories to tell, and a great need to tell them. I've got these images, these thoughts in my head, and I need to find a way to cope with them.

It's so much easier to know who you are when there aren't a thousand people telling you who they think you are.

In college - while figuring the things out that most people do in college - I had no game. No confidence. I had Birkenstocks. And overalls. A budding romance novel addiction. But no cool. No poise. I was trying on a thousand different personalities, but a lot of them were formed by the perceptions of others.

I've always been single... I've never married despite a thousand proposals.

Yo, sedienta de mí, me detenía en estatuas duplicando el instante fugitivo en cristales y luego reiniciaba mi marcha de Narciso ya entonces como alada liberación de imagen entre imágenes.

Unless you're shopping in a store, "new" does not come with a label attached, nor with a price tag.

The answers to my questions lie within. There is nothing I can ask that I do not, somewhere within the deep recesses of my soul, know the answer to.

Sometimes I wonder if I talk to myself becuase I'm a writer, or if I'm a writer because I talk to myself

When we fall in love at a glance, the question we should ask ourselves (and this would apply to both men and women) is, What is it that we long for? Or perhaps, What are we lacking so that we can turn life in the direction we want? Creativity? Confidence? Authority? Recklessness? Irresponsibility? Or even darkness? Perhaps the lover is the outlaw in ourselves we don't quite have the nerve to claim. (p. 34)

We are like an only child who in growing up realizes that the world does not revolve only around himself, as he thought when little," Rovelli writes. "Mirrored by others, and by other things, we learn who we are.

I am grieving for the girl who always knew what she wanted and knew how to be alive in this terrifying world. That girl is gone. She is lying in pieces somewhere and I miss her. I miss her and I want her back.

don't care what he did or where he's been. It's made him who he is, and I like that.

True positiveness is the effect on life that comes about simply through not being affected by it. This beautiful thing comes to pass by discovering a relationship with our Parent Self. If we let the Presence within affect us more than our environment, we remain calm—less and less affected by stress.

Somerset Maugham advised, "It's never too late to be what you might have been.

O meu nome diz o que devo ser, o que devo pensar, o que devo falar. Meu nome é uma gaiola em que estou preso. Mas se, ao acordar, eu tiver me esquecido do meu nome, terei esquecido também de tudo que se espera de mim. Se nada se espera de mim, estou livre para ser aquilo que nunca fui. Começarei a viver minha vida a partir de mim mesmo e não a partir do nome que me deram e pelo qual sou conhecido.

No matter how many decathlons you run, how many shoes you buy or how famous you get, those unresolved, unbearable feelings exist below. Freud was on the button when he said you have to bring your darkness into the light if you want to free yourself from those deep unconscious emotions. Just like a virus has to be sweated out, your malignant thoughts and feelings have to surface.