Quotes About Self-discovery

I don't wear tattoos to freak her out; I wear them because I have to. It's me.

Sometimes we have to run away from ourselves in order to find ourselves.

and she said we all had to find God inside ourselves, in the things we loved most.

When I decided I was a boy, I realized that if I wanted to pass, I'd have to learn to walk differently, talk differently, dress differently, basically act differently than I did as a girl. But why did we need to act at all?

I was surprised at how much general fear and anxiety lurked inside me these days. I'd never been a fearful person, never even understood phobias like fear of heights of water or snakes or any of those things. And while I knew that my coming out as a transgender person was going to throw certain people for a loop, I somehow hadn't realized how much it would throw me.

That's what I love about writing. Once you get the words down on paper, in print, they start to make sense. It's like you don't know what you think until it dribbles from your brain down your arm and into your hand and out through your fingers and shows up on the computer screen, and you read it and realize: That's really true; I believe that.

If you don't know who you are, how is anybody else supposed to get to know you?

the more removed you become from the person you're naturally supposed to be – the harder you're making your life and the less happy you become.

Mas a lista das perdas era também uma lista de compras. Não eram as histórias e as palavras e as músicas o que eu havia perdido. Eu havia perdido essa minha identidade que formulava, sem cessar, histórias, palavras e músicas a seu próprio respeito. Eu tinha ficado menor, menos interessante. E precisava comprar um olhar com que eu pudesse olhar o mundo, uma voz com que eu pudesse, frágil e firme, falar de mim. Não contar histórias, menos do que isso. Só falar.

Elyse Friedman

I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear - it was not a fear of not being accepted - was a very violent fear of failure.

Do you know? You will end up developing and learning a lot more about yourself and your God-given potentials the moment you start teaching others. In other words, the more you teach others, the more enlightened and advanced you will become. Thus, dare to teach the world right here and even beyond here. -Emeasoba George

Everything you will ever need to go after/accomplish/fulfill your goal/dream/vision or any other target/aspiration which you will ever set/aspire for is already sitting/waiting patiently inside you. Oh! Yes, all you've got to do is just to take a leap/step of faith forward/towards your goal/target/dream/vision/aspiration and then, sit back and watch it materialize/come true gradually/sooner or later.

You shouldn't live and long to be like someone else. Yes, because God made you to be you and never to long to be like someone else. And believe you me, no one can be like you. And you can't be like anybody out there. So, be you and remain you for life in anything you are doing presently and whatever you will do subsequently.

I just hate feeling like there's some timeline trying to tell me when I have to get to each new step. It feels like everyone's taking the elevator up to some secret penthouse party, and I'm not even allowed to take a peek. And if everyone goes up before I do, will they lock the door?

I was willing to be anything people told me to be. I didn't mind that I was dying inside because I didn't know how to live any other way. But how do you learn to breathe, then opt to be suffocated day in and day out

Alone, even doing nothing, you do not waste your time. You do, almost always, in company. No encounter with yourself can be altogether sterile: Something necessarily emerges, even if only the hope of some day meeting yourself again.

što nam ljudi više okre?u le?a, više rade na našem usavršavanju: napuštaju?i nas, oni nas spasavaju.

Règle d'or : laisser une image incomplète de soi...

Când petreci zile întregi f?r? s? schimbi vreo vorb? cu vreo f?ptur?, când ai uitat semenii È™i pân? È™i condiÈ›ia de om, eul se dezv?luie cu o for?? tot aÈ™a de mare ca È™i lumea. ConversaÈ›ia ne d? m?sura micimii noastre; singur?tatea ne-o intensific?, dar în aÈ™a fel încât micimea noastr? nu e mai mic? decât a lumii.

Am devenit propriul meu elev.Nu po?i nega la infinit.La ce bun s? ponegre?ti universul?Nu m? pot converti la nimic ?i totu?i nu-mi consider via?a un e?ec.

Începuturile noastre conteaz?, desigur; dar pasul decisiv spre noi înÈ™ine nu-l facem decât atunci când nu mai avem origini, când biografia noastr? e la fel de puÈ›in? ca a lui Dumnezeu...

C?ci dac? diferenÈ›a dintre om È™i animal rezid? în faptul c? animalul nu poate fi decât animal, pe când omul poate fi neom, adic? altceva decât el însuÈ™i - atunci eu sunt un neom.

Pentru un tân?r ambiÅ£ios, nu exist? nenorocire mai mare decât frecventarea unor buni cunosc?tori ai firii omeneÅŸti. Eu însumi am frecventat trei sau patru: la dou?zeci de ani, eram terminat.