Quotes About Self-discovery

When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.

Ten guards and the warden couldn't have torn me out of those books. Months passed without even thinking about being imprisoned....I had never been so truly free in my life.

'I think as a guy you need a little bit to be on your own from early on, to start to live your own life, and try to understand what is going on around you, you have to be able to survive...

We strive all the time to give our life its form, but we do so by copying willy-nilly, like a drawing, the features of the person that we are and not of the person we should like to be.

Life would be so much harder if I had to lie about who I was.

Escape is not about moving from one place to another. It's about becoming more.

I was inspired to create 'My Life' so I could finally share a personal part of my life beyond my music.

I've spent so much of my adult life in relationships that it's actually quite pleasant to be alone at last. I turned thirty-six the other day, which staggers me when I think about it.

The first step that leads to our identity in life is usually not 'I know who I am,' but rather 'I know who I am not.'

It is far more important that one's life should be perceived than that it should be transformed; for no sooner has it been perceived, than it transforms itself of its own accord.

When you start to meditate, if you stick with it, you will see tremendous changes in your life and state of mind.

People who meditate deeply find wonderful things happening in their life all the time.

When you meditate, you take charge of your life. You bring your conscious awareness to a new high point, where the vista is beyond any horizon.

A war is an incarnation. A battle is a day of your life. So we do one day at a time in self-discovery.

Nothing you can do can prevent your death. Nothing you can do can prevent your rebirth. To step beyond life and death is self-discovery.

I was purely content to sit in the car and wander around my own mind. Watching the world itself, the people in it, and my whole internal life was more than enough to keep me entertained.

I needed to stop forcing myself to fit into something I could never be a part of.

One of the hardest things about my emotional awakening was the way it reshaped so many of my memories. It may sound crazy, but all too often, it turned formerly good memories bad. And there's no balance. There's not a single bad memory that's now turned to good. (Page 211, the first paragraph of the "Rewriting History" chapter)

don't ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive, because what the world needs are men who have come alive.

The purpose of relationships is to help awaken you to the inherent balance existing within and around you, and to assist you in acknowledging your own magnificence and wholeness.

The more we try to ground our identities in external possessions or triumphs, the more we plaster our names on everything we can accumulate, the more we cling to surface and style, the less we find underneath.

The cricket was no more, but the power of love had found its way, and I was again myself and no longer a cricket, I was Arturo Bandini, and the elm tree yonder was Miss Hopkins, and I got to my knees and put my arms around the tree, kissing it for love everlasting, tearing the bark with my teeth and spitting it on the lawn.

Leave town, Henry. Leave before they trap you

Why was I here? What now? Who did I know? Not even myself.