Quotes About Self-discovery

if you don't know yourself, if you don't control yourself, if you don't have mastery over yourself, it's very hard to like yourself, except in some short-term, psych-up, superficial way.

we detect rather than invent our missions in life.

Today we come across an individual who behaves like an automaton, who does not know or understand himself, and the only person that he knows is the person that he is supposed to be, whose meaningless chatter has replaced communicative speech, whose

Frankl says we detect rather than invent our missions in life. I like that choice of words. I think each of us has an internal monitor or sense, a conscience, that gives us an awareness of our own uniqueness and the singular contributions that we can make.

Our meaning comes from within. Again, in the words of Frankl, "Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

he can only answer to life by answering for his own life;

mental and emotional illnesses are really symptoms of an underlying sense of meaninglessness or emptiness. Logotherapy eliminates that emptiness by helping the individual to detect his unique meaning, his mission in life. Once you have that sense of mission, you have the essence of your own proactivity.

Writing is another powerful way to sharpen the mental saw. Keeping a journal of our thoughts, experiences, insights, and learnings promotes mental clarity, exactness, and context.

leadership is communicating others' worth and potential so clearly that they are inspired to see it in themselves

embryonic freedom day after day will, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally "being lived." They are acting out the scripts written by parents, associates, and society.

definición del liderazgo: enseñaba que liderazgo es comunicar la valía y el potencial de los demás con tanta claridad que se inspiren para verlo en ellos mismos.

A sealed door admits no light.' Will you not speak to me? No hand may open that door but your own.

Your mother would break my pate if she knew how I risked you. Father, Myste replied like a sun, all children must be risked. Mother knows that. How else are we to discover ourselves? King Jose and Myste (p. 908)

Son las preguntas que no podemos responder las que más nos enseñan. Nos enseñan cómo pensar. Si le das a un hombre una respuesta, lo único que gana es un pequeño hecho. Pero dale una pregunta y va a buscar sus propias respuestas. PATRICK ROTHFUSS, AUTOR

The wizard didn't give anything to the Tin Man that he didn't already have.

we ourselves do that each day. We use our crayons (our imagination) to scare ourselves instead of to create.

When you get your, 'Who am I?', question right, all of your, 'What should I do?' questions tend to take care of themselves." ~ Richard Rohr

But, I don't know what my purpose is," a lot of people tell me, as if someone forgot to tell them what it is. Those people may wait forever to be told how to live and what to live for.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act!

Falling hard for somebody makes you do things you never thought you'd do before. Like pulling off an A in History or finally facing the truth about yourself

TRAVIS: I never said I like boys! GORDO: Ever beat off to Penthouse? TRAVIS: No. GORDO: Ever collect baseball cards? TRAVIS: No. GORDO: How old is Barbra Streisand? TRAVIS: 36. Three weeks ago. GORDO:What do you need—a fucking blueprint?

Lacy was just as happy alone as with company. When she was alone, she was potential; with others she was realized.

Mirabelle's ambition is about one-tenth of 1 percent of what would be called normal. ... She is not aware that some people fight like alley cats for desirable situations. She presents a résumé, fills out an application, waits, and finally makes a call to see if she got the job. Usually, a confused secretary will answer and say that the position had been filled weeks ago. This aimlessness in presenting herself contributes to her feeling of being adrift.

To my mind, voyaging through wildernesses, be they full of woods or waves, is essential to the growth and maturity of the human spirit. It is in the wilderness that you really learn who you are.