Quotes About Self-discovery

I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news

Life is too short and too precious to waste it living out someone else's values. We must find our own.

This is the time to be slow, Lie low to the wall Until the bitter weather passes. Try, as best you can, not to let The wire brush of doubt Scrape from your heart All sense of yourself And your hesitant light. If you remain generous, Time will come good; And you will find your feet Again on fresh pastures of promise, Where the air will be kind And blushed with beginning.

the sense of separateness from the rest of the world, as if everyone else knew the part they were playing but I'd never been given a script.

Chi non ha un mondo suo si diverte a rimpiangere il tramonto di un mondo altrui.

John P. Forsyth

We do not know ourselves aright, Until we have the Father's light. We think we know ourselves and groan, Until we know as we are known

For a slave to be taught that he should no longer lie and cheat with revolutionary; more astonishing still was the slave's discovery that he did not want to lie or cheat and that he now loved the owner whom he had once resented and feared.

Neil made a face of supreme disgust, and I felt anger mushrooming inside of me. "Things like that—which people cling to as memories," he said, "it's those things that keep men from realizing their True Nature.

Because even before I got there, New York had become a symbol of my liberated self, and I knew that it was in a kind of turbulence that that self must attempt to find itself.

Oh yeah, I heard you got born again.' she said. 'Which you needed since they fucked up the first time.

What I will say is this: each of us is born into this life with a light inside of us. Some, like yours, burn brighter than others. You don't see that yet, but I do. What's most important is to never let that light go out, because when you do, it means you've lost yourself to the darkness. It means you've lost your hope. And hope is what makes this world a beautiful place. Do you understand what I am trying to say?

It was good to be peaceful again, to be one's self; it was wonderful to be unknown in the crowd. (MacLennan 1945, 120)

I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

Private time is absolutely essential if a private identity is going to develop, and private time is equally essential to the development of a code of private values, without which we aren't really individuals at all.

The most important things worth knowing are innate in you already.

hayat?m? ba?ka birinin el yaz?s?ndaki bir karaktermi? gibi ya?ad?m.

The primary goal of real education is not to deliver facts but to guide students to the truths that will allow them to take responsibility for their lives.

good things happen to the human spirit when it is left alone.

I never made any friends, even as a kid. Not the kind you can open your heart to." "It's not that hard." "I hope not. Because I'm going to be a different person. I'm going to tell people about the real me. This is the first time I can do it, because it's the first time I've really known myself. And I'm going to love. I'm going to care about people.

I'm going to tell people about the real me. This is the first time I can do it, because it's the first time I've really known myself. And I'm going to love. I'm going to care about people. And it looks like you're it.

Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems.

Meditation provides a way of learning how to let go. As we sit, the self we've been trying to construct and make into a nice, neat package continues to unravel.