Quotes About Self-discovery

Is that what it feels like, coming here? Like a crazy decision that took you away and made you some lesser version of yourself?

Ashton Morris

To know nothing about yourself is to be constantly in danger of nothingness, those voids of non-being over which a man walks the tightrope of his life.

I think Destiny's purpose is merely to shock us at moments into a state of awareness; those moments are milestones in between which we have to find our own way.

If a person finds that he doesn't know himself very well, often he can rely on the help of another person who has known him and has been able to observe him over several years.

Let each man hear his own music and live by it. The drums roll one way for one man, and another way for another. You have to listen for your own.

I am my best work - a series of road maps, reports, recipes, doodles, and prayers from the front lines.

We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.

Once in a while you have to take a break and visit yourself.

I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

But when Johnny goes outon Johnny's own Timehe's out there doing the only one thing:he's burning off all the stillborn Johnnysthat hatched in his head in the night.And that John, he won't ever come home,not until he's right.

I ain't never found no place for me to fit. Seem like all I do is start over. It ain't nothing to find no starting place in the world. You just start from where you find yourself.

As long as the colored man look to white folks to put the crown on what he say… as long as he looks to white folks for approval… then he ain't never gonna find out who he is and what he's about.

It got so I used all of myself up in the making of that song. Then I was the song in search of itself. That song rattling in my throat and I'm looking for it.

Muitos dos que têm morada certa passam pela existência sem nunca percorrer as avenidas do seu próprio ser. São forasteiros para si mesmos. Por isso, são incapazes de corrigir as suas rotas e superar as suas loucuras.

Os jovens conhecem cada vez mais o mundo em que estão, mas quase nada sobre o mundo que são. No máximo conhecem a sala de visitas da sua própria personalidade. Quer pior solidão do que esta? O ser humano é um estranho para si mesmo!

Só se questiona quem procura por si mesmo, quem quer sair da superfície do planeta mente para entrar em suas camadas mais profundas. Quem não se questiona não duvida das próprias verdades, não vasculha os fundamentos das emoções e dos pensamentos que tem, vai sempre ser superficial, ainda que seja academicamente um intelectual. E quanto mais me questionava, mais anotava e mais desenvolvia novos conhecimentos.

Lembrem-se sempre que bons psiquiatras e psicólogos nos ensinam a encontrar as vírgulas. As vírgulas transformam os frágeis em poderosos, os fatigados em incansáveis, os ansiosos em tranquilos, os depressivos em seres humanos que aprendem a enxergar a vida como um espetáculo imperdível – explicou Marco Polo.

Each man has in him the potential to realize the truth through his own will and endeavour and to help others to realize it.

for I realized how narrow my world had been and that self-education could be and should be an exciting life-long adventure.

People often search for happiness in another person, when actually it comes from within.

I miss the girl I was, and I wish I could tell her that. But she got hurt really bad and I've been waiting such a long time for her to be okay again. I bet she never dreamed she would live so long, or do the things she can do now. I wish I could tell her what she'd grow up to be, how strange and beautiful and unexpected she'd be. She'd probably feel a lot better if she knew. The sky and the stars are brilliant, and I think of how much she would have loved this.

If you're different you always know it, and you can't fix it even if you want to. What do you do when you find out your heart is the wrong kind? You take what you're given, and be the hero you can be. Hero to your own cold, inverted heart.

Ideals may tell us something important about what we would like to be. But compromises tell us who we are.