Quotes About Self-discovery

Eastern religions tell us that if we go for God, all that is not authentically ourselves will drop.

Dear God, Please free me from false appetites and take away my pain. Take from me my addicted self, and show me who I am. Unchain my heart so I might live a freer life at last. Amen

A moment of crisis can be a moment of growth, as the wounded self prepares to transform. From the chrysalis of my pain, I will forge my healing—the wings of my newborn self.

That every tear she felt like crying was a tear she had to cry, and she would know when she had cried enough when she didn't have any more tears left.

Ha llegado la hora de que cada uno enfrente, de una vez por todas, cualesquiera demonios que nos hayan mantenido encadenados a nuestras neurosis y a nuestro dolor; es hora de ponernos en pie y mostrar lo mejor de nosotros mismos, como la forma de presentarnos ante Dios; de ocupar nuestros puestos en el Plan de Dios para la salvación del mundo.

El propósito de nuestra vida es dar nacimiento a lo mejor que llevamos dentro.

El camino espiritual es, pues, simplemente el viaje de vivir cada cual su vida.

You've learned something about yourself from all of this: you do not function well outside the circle of God's love.

Mary, I wish to know who I am as a wife or girlfriend or mother or daughter. I wish to be the woman I am capable of being. I wish to have your purity and clarity and level of enlightenment. May the essence of my womanhood become more radiant than my external self.

How could everybody think that this stupid game of "making it in the world"—which I was actually embarrassed I didn't know how to play—could be all there is to our being here?

El mundo ha impreso en nuestras psiquis su quebranto y su dolor. Y no tiene sentido intentar aliviar ese dolor hasta que sanemos nuestro desubicado sentido de herencia. No somos hijos del mundo; somos hijos de Dios. No tenemos que permitir que el insumo errado de un mundo cansado nos afecte como lo hace.

It is not your job to seek for love, it is your job to seek within yourself all the barriers who hold against its coming.

our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate . our deepest fear that we are powerful beyond measure . we ask ourselves: who i am to be brilliant,gorgeous,talented and fabulous ? actually who you are not to be?

One of the ideas we must agree on and continue to forge with individual and collective vigor is that a woman's life goes uphill at forty.

Por mediación de diversas técnicas terapéuticas, llegué a estar muy al tanto de mis propias neurosis, pero eso no necesariamente las exorcizaba.

Take a good look at your life right now. If you don't like something about it, close your eyes and imagine the life you want. Now allow yourself to focus your inner eye on the person you would have to be in order to create your preferred life.

Until we heal the child we used to be, the adult we want to becdoesn't stand a chance.

Una vez que estamos absolutamente convencidos de que no hay respuestas definitivas por fuera de uno mismo, comenzamos a buscarlas donde realmente se encuentran: en nuestro interior.

Les femmes n'ont pas de nom. Elles ont un prénom. Leur nom est un prêt transitoire, un signe instable, leur éphémère. Elles trouvent d'autres repères. Leur affirmation au monde, leur être là, leur création, leur signature, en sont déterminés. Elles s'inventent dans un monde d'hommes, par effraction.

He was so intent on running away from the specter of his parents' life that he had never stopped to properly consider what he should have been running toward. Teddy

I was becoming the cold, emotionally crippled monster I always wanted to be, and I wasn't so sure I liked it. But it was too late. The metamorphosis was already well under way.

The most valuable thing [Anton LaVey] did that day was to help me understand and come to terms with the deadness, hardness and apathy I was feeling about myself and the world around me, explaining that it was all necessary, a middle step in an evolution from an innocent child to an intelligent, powerful being capable of making a mark on the world.

I know more than I know and must learn it from myself.

My own dark time, as I call it, the time of my loneliness, was most of my life, as I have said, and I can't make any real account of myself without speaking of it.