Quotes About Self-discovery

One does not find solitude, one creates it. Solitude is created alone. I have created it. Because I decided that here was where I should be alone, that I would be alone to write books. It happened this way. I was alone in this house. I shut myself in—of course, I was afraid. And then I began to love it.

I already know a thing or two. I know it's not clothes that make women beautiful or otherwise, nor beauty care, nor expensive creams, nor the distinction or costliness of their finery. I know the problem lies elsewhere. I don't know where.

Ciascuno di noi ha più qualità di quel che non si creda, ma solo il successo le mette in luce, forse perché allora ci si aspetta di vederci smettere di esercitarle.

Cada uno de nosotros posee más virtudes de lo que se cree, pero sólo el éxito las pone de relieve

Cada uno de nosotros posee más virtudes de lo que se cree, pero sólo el éxito las pone de relieve, quizá porque entonces se espera que dejemos de manifestarlas.

No perder nunca de vista el diagrama de una vida humana, que no se compone, por más bien que se diga, de una horizontal y de dos perpendiculares, sino más bien de tres líneas sinuosas, perdidas hacia el infinito, constantemente próximas y divergentes: lo que un hombre ha creído ser, lo que ha querido ser, y lo que fue.

Il mio insegnante (un uomo assai mediocre, ma pieno di buona volontà) consigliava mia madre di mandarmi all'estero a perfezionare la mia educazione musicale. Sapevo che vi avrei trovato difficile l'esistenza; ciononostante desideravo partire. Abbiamo tanti legami con luoghi dove abbiamo vissuto che ci sembra più facile, lasciandoli, lasciare noi stessi.

Il était arrivé à ce moment de la vie, variable pour tout homme, où l'être humain s'abandonne à son démon ou à son génie, suit une loi mystérieuse qui lui ordonne de se détruire ou de se dépasser.

El verdadero lugar del nacimiento es aquel donde por primera vez nos miramos con una mirada inteligente; mis primeras patrias fueron los libros. Y, en menor grado, las escuelas.

Il racconto è scritto in prima persona e messo in bocca al personaggio principale, procedimento per il quale io ho una certa predilezione perché elimina dal libro il punto di vista dell'autore, o almeno i suoi commenti, e perché permette di mostrare un essere umano che fronteggia la sua stessa vita e si sforza più o meno onestamente di spiegarla e innanzitutto di ricordarsela.

un Ulisse senz'altra Itaca che quella interiore.

Call off the search for a "why", Rachel,' she finished on. 'You don't need it.

You were born God's original. Try not to become someone's copy.

The cure for loneliness is solitude.

Spiritual progress is like a detoxification.

When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.

If a train doesn't stop at your station, then it's not your train.

We must relinquish our passive observation of the world outside; we can open the door to the world we want. In understanding ourselves, we come to understand the world. In allowing ourselves to heal, we become the healers of the world. In praying for peace, we become bringers of peace. Thus we actualize the power within us to remedy the psychic wounds of humanity.

We don't know how to be women because we were taught it was not OK to be girls. Our most natural impulses were thwarted and distorted.

The more room you give yourself to express your true thoughts and feelings, the more room there is for your wisdom to emerge.

Before the Prince can save the damsel in distress, he has to slay the dragons that surround her castle. So do we all. Those dragons are our demons, our wounds, our egos, our brilliant ways of denying love to ourselves and others. The ego's patterns have to be rooted out, detoxed from our system, before the pure love within us can have a chance to come forth.

But it is not regressive to surrender to our feminine selves. It's the most progressive line if development because it honors, instead of represses, our emotions.

Slowly but surely, you will learn to behave as you would have wished to behave but were too wounded to know how.

The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self. If you don't already believe it yourself, another person cannot convince you you're okay.