Quotes About Self-discovery

She tried to reassemble herself, to resemble herself...

At the end of the day, it's still up to you, and that's the beauty of books. In so many ways, they never really end.

He would suffer before he'd belong, unable to show himself easily; a preference for greater hope—to find someone who would know him completely.

Sé lo que tengo que darle a Audrey. Audrey no ama a nadie. Se niega a amar. Pero lo necesita, necesita permitírselo aunque solo sea un momento. Necesita vivir ese sentimiento. Conocerlo plenamente. Al menos una vez.

Orada duruyor, birinin bir ?eyler yapmas?n? bekliyordum ama sonunda bekledi?im ki?inin kendim oldu?unu anlam??t?m.

You want to know what I truly look like? Find yourself a mirror while I continue. -Death

If there are alleys inside me, there must also be hallways. I

And why?' He pauses. 'I did it because you are the epitome of ordinariness, Ed. And if a guy like you can stand up and do what you did, then maybe everyone can. Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.' And that's when I realize, in a sweet cruel beautiful moment of clarity. I smile, watch a crack in the cement, and speak Audrey and the Doorman. I tell them what I'm telling you now: I'm not the messenger at all, I'm the message.

I don't want to stand in naked silence, pathetically unaware of how to be.

People who work alone know the beauty of solitude. The perhaps greater beauty of loneliness

But I think I've learned a lesson and that is that you have to find your own answers on things. Even if they're wrong answers. The point is in the finding.

The only way to get out of this suicidal pattern is to leave the battlefield by going to the Watcher's place of peace. EXERCISE:

I only put down on paper what works for me, and since I started out as a human train wreck, the ways I've learned to be happy also work for others.

Because we are all poets or babies in the middle of the night, struggling with being.

I've got to get this stuff out of my system. No, more than that, much more. I've got to get my system out of my system. That's what I've got to do.

These days, especially within queer theory's hallowed halls, sexual "fluidity" has become something of a talisman for personal authenticity.

A man doesn't realize how much he can stand until he is put to the test. You can stand far more than you think you can. You are much stronger than you think you are. If you can laugh at yourself, you are going to be fine. If you allow others to laugh with you, you will be great.

Our children are grown, we've enjoyed some success in our lives, and we're looking for something else now to fulfill ourselves....It's like being adolescents all over again, only this time we don't care if everyone likes the way we look or the clothes we wear. Or even if people like us at all. That nasty competition is over. I see this as a time to be who we've always seen ourselves as being, deep in our hearts.

Why hadn't she believed she could do it? As soon as she asked the question, she knew the answer. Fear. Fear of failure. Fear of not being perfect. Fear was at the root of her problems. The bedrock of her timidity. The

It was chilling to wake up at forty years of age to find she had no friends, no interests and no investments in anything unconnected to her work.

It time for me to shed all my insecurities and fears. Let them fall to the ground. It's time for me to find my voice and fly.

Suddenly, and for the first time, he was at the center of his own life, living it and loving it.

The trouble with running away is that you must always take yourself with you.

It was the challenge of life too, was it not? People could never be fully understood. They were ever changing, different people at different times and under different circumstances and influences. And always growing, always creating themselves anew. How impossible it was to know another human being. How impossible to know even oneself.