Quotes About Self-discovery

La clave consistía en asegurarse de que nadie a quien permitieras caminar a tu lado decidiera quién eras y te etiquetara, como a una mariposa en una caja. La clave era saber que siempre podías encontrar de algún modo la forma de volver a reinventarte.

It's not a matter of giving you a chance. I've watched you these six months becoming a whole different person, someone who is only just beginning to see her possibilities. You have no idea how happy that has made me. I don't want you to be tied to me, to my hospital appointments, to the restrictions on my life. I don't want you to miss out on all the things someone else could give you.

I thought about how you're shaped so much by the people who surround you, and how careful you have to be in choosing them for this exact reason, and then I thought, despite all that, in the end maybe you have to lose them all in order to truly find yourself.

The young are right to be fearless, she reminded herself. Remember yourself at that age.

It's not a matter of giving you a chance. I've watched you these six months becoming a whole different person, someone who is only just beginning to see her possibilities. You have no idea how happy that has made me. I don't want you to be tied to me

Be thrown into a new life (or at least thrown with sush force against the life of someone who is like squashed his face against the window) forces you to rethink who you are. Or what causes impression for others

You're too bright. Too interesting." He looked away from me. "You only get one life. It's actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.

She had earned every one of her bruises and blisters, had built a new Alice over the frame of one with whom she had never felt entirely comfortable.

and every day I felt like I was living someone else's life.

Kad te netko katapultira u posve nov život ili te bar gurne toliko snažno u tu?i život da se osjetiš kao da ti je lice priljubljeno uz tu?i prozor - prisiljen si ponovo razmisliti o tome tko si. Ili kako te drugi doživljavaju.

I feel like I've turned myself off for the past two years. Like I wouldn't let anyone get close to me because of what happened. I mean, what's the point of getting close to someone if you're only going to lose them? But the other day I started thinking about what I actually want out of life and I realized it was someone to love. Because you got to move on, right? You got to see some kind of future.

como sabe? você não fez nada, não foi a lugar algum. como sabe que tipo de pessoa você é?

então eu chorei. sem soluçar desta vez. as lágrimas saíam em silêncio e me diziam que mais alguma coisa estava me deixando. culpa. medo. e algumas outras coisas para as quais eu ainda não tinha encontrado nomes.

M-am gandit cat de mult de modeleaza oamenii din jurul tau si cu cata grija trebuie sa-i alegi tocmai din acest motiv, iar apoi m-am gandit ca, in ciuda acestui lucru, pana la urma poate ca trebuie sa-i piezi pentru a-ti da seama cine esti cu adevarat.

Esential este sa te asiguri ca omul pe care il accepti alaturi de tine nu decide cine esti si nu te tintuieste ca pe un fluture intr-un insectar.

You're going to feel uncomfortable in your new world for a bit. But I hope you feel a bit exhilarated too. Live boldly. Push yourself. Don't settle. Just live well. Just live. Love, Will.

Verse arrojada a una nueva vida (o, al menos, lanzada con tal fuerza contra la vida de alguien que es como aplastarse la cara contra la ventana) te obliga a replantearte quién eres. O qué impresión causas a otras personas.

Tienes que salir de aquí, Clark. Prométeme que no vas a pasar el resto de tus días atrapada en esta maldita parodia de postal de vacaciones. […] Eres demasiado inteligente. Demasiado interesante. […] Solo se vive una vez. En realidad, es tu deber que sea una vida plena.

Es asombroso que hayas rescatado de dentro de mí algo digno de amar.

I thought of my mother, a woman so molded by looking after other people that she no longer knew what to do when she was freed.

Averigüe qué me haría feliz y averigüe que quería hacer, y me forme para el trabajo que haría posible esas dos cosas. - Tal como lo dices, parece muy sencillo. - Es sencillo -dijo-. Pero lo cierto es que también supone un grandísimo esfuerzo. Y la gente no está dispuesta a hacer este tipo de sacrificio.

Te niegas todas estas experiencias porque te dices a ti misma que no eres «ese tipo de persona». —Pero es que no lo soy. —¿Cómo lo sabes? No has hecho nada, no has ido a ningún lugar. ¿Acaso tienes la menor idea de qué tipo de persona eres?

I'm going to end up like my mother. She left it too late to remember who she actually was before she became a wife.

She had earned every one of her bruises and blisters, had built a new Alice over the frame of one with whom she never felt entirely comfortable.