Quotes About Self-discovery

But I'd also learned that the self might want one thing, but that didn't mean it was right.

He said, If you knew your beauty. Even the cat listened. Margaret said, If I did, what then? You'd set the world singing. They knew he meant, You would find a man who truly loved you.

you'd think my own face would know me...

Little Natalie, never rest until you have uncovered your essential self. Remember that. Somewhere, deep inside you, hidden by all sorts of fears and worries and petty little thoughts, is a clean pure being made of radiant colours.

Nachdem ich nun weiß, wer von uns ich ist', sagte Luke, 'kann ich mich gleich noch näher vorstellen.

I think that an atmosphere like this one can find out the flaws and faults and weaknesses in all of us, and break us apart in a matter of days. We have only one defense, and that is running away.

Little Natalie, never rest until you have uncovered your essential self. Remember that. Somewhere, deep inside you, hidden by all sorts of fears and worries and petty little thoughts, is a clean pure being made of radiant colors.

To learn what we fear is to learn who we are. Horror defines our boundaries and illuminates our souls.

how can i be nothing at all for hours and days at a time, and then suddenly create myself into a real person for ten minutes at bedtime?

this compound of creatures I call Me." Of

Perhaps—and this was her most persistent thought, the thought that stayed with her and came suddenly to trouble her at odd moments, and to comfort her—suppose, actually, she were not Natalie Waite, college girl, daughter to Arnold Waite, a creature of deep lovely destiny; suppose she were someone else?

Having realized that her affection for Sinclair went far beyond friendship, there was only one thing for her to do. She took off her hat and banged her head against the nearest lamppost. Also realizing she was drawing attention from passerby, she put her hat back on and resumed walking.

Switch off the TV and tune in to yourself

I don't know how to choose work that illuminates what my life is about. I don't know what my life is about and don't examine it. My life will define itself as I live it. The movies will define themselves as I make them. As long as the theme is something I care about at the moment, it's enough for me to start work. Maybe work itself is what my life is about.

If you would seek to find yourself look not in the mirror for there is but a shadow there' A stranger.... SILENIUS, ODES TO TRUTH

And it is only after seeing man as his unconscious, revealed by his dreams, presents him to us that we shall understand him fully. For as Freud said to Putnam: We are what we are because we have been what we have been.

Every man must find out for himself in what particular fashion he can be saved.

Gözlerinizi içeriye doÄŸru çevirin, kendi derinliklerinize bak?n, ilk önce kendinizi tan?y?n! O zaman neden hastalanmaya mecbur olduÄŸunuzu anlayacaks?n?z; ve belki de gelecekte hastalanman?z? önleyeceksiniz. (Freud, S. (1917a). A Difficulty in the Path of Psycho-Analysis. The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud)

Lo maravilloso del mundo reposa precisamente en esta multiplicidad de las posibilidades: lástima que sea un terreno tan poco sólido para conocernos a nosotros mismos.

What we miss—what we lose and what we mourn—isn't it this that makes us who, deep down, we truly are. To say nothing of what we wanted in life but never got to have.

The path you choose must be your own. And once that path has been embarked on, you must never falter, never deviate. I faltered... and deviated! And now I must get back on track... if I still can.

We are all making it up as we go along, unmaking our minds and remaking ourselves.

I think that where you go wrong is that you imagine that your reasons for living ought to fall on you, ready-made from heaven, whereas we have to find them for ourselves.

Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.