Quotes About Self-discovery

La vida es muy corta para que la desperdicies en un devenir incierto o impuesto por ideales que no te nacen del alma o son impuestos desde fuera y ajenos a tu ser.

libertad auténtica es cuando la mente se desprende de lo inútil y de los miedos; cuando decide rechazar todos los apegos y los supuestos privilegios (estatus, poder, fama) que alimentan el ego hasta convertirlo en algo insufrible. Placeres del tener que nos atan o nos hacen caminar en círculos; malos placeres, diría

al estar excesivamente atentos a los rechazos descubren "más rechazos" de lo normal:67 "el que busca, encuentra".

La soledad impuesta es desolación, la elegida es liberación.

Después de reencontrarse consigo hay que empezar a reconstruirse.

La libertad no vale la pena si no conlleva el derecho a errar. GANDHI

But now everything's gone bad,and I only know one thing: I have six days. Six days to figure out who I really am.

In this place you can become the person you want to be. Anything can be gotten from books. In books there are rooms of gold, in books there is jadelike beauty.

If you want to take your own measure, put aside your money, your estates, your honors, and look inside yourself. At present you are taking the word of others for what you are. Seneca, Epistles 80.10

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.

Helping your son develop his sense of purpose requires beginning at a very different place than his dad-or granddad. His dad or granddad was told his sense of purpose. Your job is to help your son find his sense of purpose.

A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others. —Chin-Ning Chu

No, that's not the case at all. Shishio's logic dictates that the winner of a battle, in other words, the strong, is always correct that it does. If the truth could be discovered through fighting one or two battles, then we'd all be going through life without ever being wrong. A person's life isn't so simple a matter that it isn't. The true answer is something you find out yourself by how you live your life from this day onward that it is." -Kenshin

If you see me getting smaller, I'm leaving, don't be grieving, just gotta get away from here. If you see me getting smaller, don't worry, I'm in no hurry, I've got the right to disappear.

Waylon said it best when he sang to Willy; 'If you see me gettin' smaller, I'm leavin' don't be grievin', just gotta get away from here. If you see me gettin' smaller, don't worry, I'm in no hurry I've got the right to disappear.

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self." MAY SARTON

the greatest journeys of our lives begin so simply that we don't even know we've embarked on them until we're well down the road looking back.

Some of us have a hard time believing that we are actually able to face our own pain. We have convinced ourselves that our pain is too deep, too frightening, something to avoid at all costs. Yet if we finally allow ourselves to feel the depth of that sadness and gently let it break our hearts, we may come to feel a great freedom, a genuine sense of release and peace, because we have finally stopped running away from ourselves and from the pain that lives within us.

Most people are searching for happines. They're looking for it. They're trying to find it in someone or something outside of themselves.That's a fundemental mistake. Happiness is something that you are, and it comes from the way you think.

Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.

All of a sudden I didn't fit in anywhere. Not at school, not at home...and every time I turned around, another person I'd known forever felt like a stranger to me. Even I felt like a stranger to me.

But in my heart I knew that just like the new grass, I wasn't strong enough yet to be walked on

The way to becoming who you want to be is the way of destroying who you are.

What is my strength? Do I even have a strength? Maybe I have too many strengths, and that's why I can't think of just one.