Quotes About Self-discovery

I don't remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become a dentist or a postman. For me, writing is like being gay. You finally admit that this is who you are, you come out and hope no one runs away.

Poate ca rugaciunea nici nu este altceva, atunci cand ceremonialul si teologia sunt lasate departe: o nemiscare sobra, in care omul isi vorbeste, aproape in tacere, siesi.

Not surprisingly, he began to sing, and because no one in the world could hear him, and he sang without inhibition, he sang well.

All these things were shaken about within Peter Lake like pots and pans banging against the side of a peddler's swaybacked horse. It was hard to bear the weight of partial revelations which refused to venture past the tip of his tongue.

Gerrit Gerritszoon, who renamed himself Desiderius Erasmus.

You've got nothing to be sorry about Danesh. You're a product of circumstances and circumstances change. Let's create a version of you that doesn't feel so lost.-Edison Prodigy Vol. 1 The Evil Earth

The only response to adversity or misunderstanding is to be more completely who we are—to share ourselves more.

quiet pain that comes from not honoring what we know to be true, even if all we know to be true are the questions we are asking.

To journey without being changed is to be a nomad. To change without journeying is to be a chameleon. To journey and to be transformed by the journey is to be a pilgrim.

The inner life of any great thing will be incomprehensible to me until I develop and deepen an inner life of my own.

Perhaps one of the hardest remedies to accept for our pain of becoming is that wherever we are in our path—no matter how flawed or incomplete—is a blossoming unto itself.

So, if you can, give up the want of another and be who you are, and more often than not, love will come at the precise moment you are simply loving yourself.

over time, staying real becomes the work of keeping our actions in the world connected to the truth of our inner being, allowing our True Self to see the light of day.

life becomes a living of who we are until that form of self can no longer hold us, and, like Taaora in his shell, we must break the forms that contain us in order to birth our way into the next self. This is how we shed our many ways of seeing the world, not that any are false, but that each serves its purpose for a time until we grow and they no longer serve us.

the humanitarian Carol Hegedus reminds us, "Our purpose is that which we most passionately are when we pay attention to our deepest selves.

Not surprisingly, like most people, in the first half of my life, I worked very hard to understand and strengthen my uniqueness.

I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again. I woke at intervals until, by that September when Father went down the river, the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often awake than not. I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be awake continuously and never slip back, and never be free of myself again.

For me, the story about the pictures is about almost losing myself, and coming back, and what it means to be deeply involved in a subject. The thing that saved me was that I had my camera by my side. It was there to remind me who I was and what I did. It separated me from them.

Kathleen is truly and utterly and completely Kathleen in New York. That's what the city does for you if it's meant for you.

Perhaps ministers at our best were more like community organizers—providing space and questions that helped people discover themselves and their capacity to effect change?

Feeling very surprised too at myself. I knew what was happening, O my brothers. I was like growing up.

As one man said, I got a pretty good education. It took me years to get over it. That's what spirituality is all about, you know: unlearning. Unlearning all the rubbish they taught you.

t's so lonely when you don't even know yourself.. it's so lonely.

Those are the feelings you feel when you're out there and enough dark energy possesses you and you think, "Who the fuck am I? What happened to me?