Quotes About Self-discovery

And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone.

I keep coming back to certain books, and you—to try to find myself again

I knew I loved you when I kept trying to run away and find reasons why it wouldn't work

the struggle is not with others, but within us, to do what we are called to do

I don't know if there is any place on this earth that I belong.

No one is more surprised than I that I turned out to be who I am.

In a way, he'd been triangulated, in much the same way one finds his location when lost in the woods. Three pillars: who he was, who he'd become, who he needed to be.

Es lo que hacía como terapeuta: pedir a los demás que buscaran respuestas en su mundo interior.

Una cosa es enfrentarse con el pasado de uno mismo. Pero otra totalmente distinta es ver lo que ha sido, y lo que significa, y utilizarlo después para construir un futuro mejor.

Cualquiera puede representar cualquier cosa a la luz del día. Pero sólo por la noche, después de que el mundo se ha oscurecido, aparece nuestro yo real.

I did not know everything there was to know about myself, and knew that I did not know it.

After so many years wondering what kind of person you were going to become one day, somewhere you forgot that this question actually has an answer, and that 'one day' will eventually arrive. If it hasn't already.

zielschmerz n. the dread of finally pursuing a lifelong dream, which requires you to put your true abilities out there to be tested on the open savannah, no longer protected inside the terrarium of hopes and delusions that you started up in kindergarten and kept sealed as long as you could.

Great acting is being able to create a character. Great character is being able to be yourself.

There is no such thing as talent, there is only cleaning the mirror.

Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative, too conventional. Too safe, too often. Too defensive. Too reactive. Later, too often on the back foot.

We've all had to rewrite the scripts of our lives the last few weeks. We've learnt a lot and we've had to figure out what's important, what matters – what really matters. It's been quite a time.

So I've started writing again. It passes the time. No, I'll be honest, it does more than that. It gets stuff out of my head and heart and puts it on paper. That doesn't mean it's no longer in my head and heart. It's still there. But once I've written about it, seems like there's more room inside me again. More room for other things.

I always had to fight to find my best self, to be aware of other people's feelings—and the devil's bargain of it is, the players who are more aware of others struggle more. Boris Becker was like that, too. We would have brilliant moments on the court, and total meltdowns. There was just too much going on inside.

They didn't take anything I did seriously; it was all some trivial, mildly annoying side activity that I insisted on for some reason, having nothing to do with real life. I couldn't challenge or contradict this view, even to myself, because I really didn't know how to do anything real. I didn't know how to move to a new city, or have sex, or have a real job, or make someone fall in love with me, or do any kind of study that wasn't just a self-improvement project.

Jack chuckles. "You can be more than one kind of person in your life," he says. "But I've always been a person who loves Hollis Shaw.

Achieving is the most important thing to you. It's more important than love, Bess said when she was fifteen years old. And wow—Ursula had felt that comment like a slap to the face. Bess has mellowed as she's gotten

makes of herself.

I said I was looking for the temple of the saints, in order to find myself. He told me I didn't need the temple, he would show me all I needed to know. Here is what it takes, he said, and he set his burden on the ground and stood straight. "But what do I do when I go home? I asked. Simple, he said. When you go home you do this—and he put the burden back on his shoulder.