Quotes About Self-discovery

I'm still shy - I'm no good at my children's parent-teacher conferences, and I'm slowly learning how to ask for what I want. But I now know that I have a reserve of courage to draw upon when I really need it. There's nothing that I'm too scared to have a go at.

I was terribly shy when I was growing up, I really wasn't confident with other people and I think I was always afraid of up or not being this very cool, amazing person that I wanted to be.

I didn't have nothin' going for me... school, home... until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

it's like the tenses of my life have got confused with who I am and who I used to be ... & perhaps we need other people to tell us who we are but my mother never really knew me.

You have to be yourself," she said, more than half wishing her nature was as brave as his. "Once you start pretending, you tend to get stuck with it.

But it's a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell you things, you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn.

I'm a multidimensional person and that's the freedom of fashion: that you're able to reinvent yourself through how you dress and how you cut your hair or whatever.

La maladie, l'approche terrifiante de la mort lui ont appris qui il était, et savoir qui on est — Étienne dirait plutôt : où on est —, cela s'appelle être guéri de la névrose.

Uscire dalla pelle del dottor Romand significava ritrovarsi senza pelle. Più che nudo: scorticato.

My schoolmates would make love to anything that moved, but I never saw any reason to limit myself.

Una de las tareas más importantes de la psiquiatría es la psicoterapia: el medio por el que el psiquiatra cambia y modifica los mecanismos negativos de la personalidad de un individuo para hacerla más equilibrada y madura, pues encontrarse a sí mismo es la puerta de la felicidad. En

Hay una novedad en la psiquiatría americana: los sujetos adictos al psicoterapeuta son personas que sufren crisis de identidad, no se encuentran a sí mismas, están perdidas o no saben cómo son ni lo que quieren en la vida.

porque el hombre sólo podía descubrir su verdadera naturaleza al verse en el espejo de la experiencia ajena.

Como ella, Germán sólo leía por placer, pero quisiera o no, cada nuevo libro le enseñaba algo desconocido sobre sí mismo.

Corría el peligro de encontrarse a sí misma, cuando lo que más deseaba era perderse de vista.

Se acuerda de que alguien dejó dicho que el camino verdaderamente misterioso siempre va hacia el interior.

Y, sobre todo, lo que aún es más difícil: saber quién realmente pudo ser.

Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.

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The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

What was most important in Epicurus' philosophy of nature was the overall conviction that our life on this earth comes with no strings attached; that there is no Maker whose puppets we are; that there is no script for us to follow and be constrained by; that it is up to us to discover the real constraints which our own nature imposes on us.

A variant of "Psychiatry" is "Archaeology" (title by courtesy of Dr. Norman Reider of San Francisco), in which the patient takes the position that if she can only find out who had the button, so to speak, everything will suddenly be all right. This results in a continual rumination over childhood happenings.

And so the moral of his fabled travels read like Santiago's, the boy in Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist: Randy had traveled around the world in search of treasure and came home to find it in his own backyard. He