Quotes About Self-discovery

It occurred to me then that for the first time in as long as I could remember, I had absolutely no desire to log back into the OASIS." - Wade Owen Watts Ready Player One

My whole life, I felt like I was destined to do something important, but I was only ever good at videogames, which I always figured would be completely useless. But it's not useless, and neither am I. I think this is what I was always destined to do with my life. I just never knew it.

It occurred to me then that for the first time in as long as I could remember, I had absolutely no desire to log back into the OASIS.

Azért hoztam létre az OASIS-t, mert soha nem találtam a helyem a valóságban. Nem tudtam, hogyan teremtsek kapcsolatot az emberekkel. Egész életemben féltem. Egészen addig, amíg fel nem fogtam, hogy hamarosan vége. Akkor értettem meg, hogy néha, bármennyire is rémisztÅ' és fájdalmas, a valóság az egyetlen hely, ahol igazi boldogságra találhatunk. És a valóság valós.

Gut', sagte er und zwinkerte mir zu. 'Mach nicht denselben Fehler wie ich. Versteck dich nicht ewig hier drin.

Salir es algo que está muy sobrevalorado. Almanaque de Anorak

Creé OASIS porque nunca me sentí a gusto en el mundo real. No conectaba bien con la gente. Tuve miedo durante toda la vida. Hasta el momento en el que supe que llegaba a su fin. Fue entonces cuando me di cuenta de que por muy aterradora y dolorosa que pueda ser, también es el unico lugar donde puede encontrarse la verdadera felicidad. Porque la realidad es real. ¿Entiendes?

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

I want you to show them the difference between what they think you are and what you can be.

And that's all we are Jefferson, all of us on this earth, a piece of drifting wood. until we - each of us, individually- decide to become something else. I am still that piece of drifting wood, and those out there are no better. But you can be better.

Perhaps one day tired of circling the world I'll return to Argentina and settle in the Andean lakes if not indefinitely then at least for a pause while I shift from one understanding of the world to another.

As an anarch, who acknowledges neither law nor custom, I owe it to myself to get at the very heart of things. I then probe them in terms of their contradictions, like image and mirror image. Either is imperfect – by seeking to unite them, which I practice every morning, I manage to catch a corner of reality.

I take the book stopped at a fold, deliver myself to its pace, to the breathing of the other storyteller. If I am someone else, it's also because books move men more than journeys or tears. After many pages you end up learning a variant, a different move than the one taken and thought inevitable. I break away from what I am when I learn to treat my own life differently.

Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator.

How can you know what you're capable of if you don't embrace the unknown?

It' her life, and she' in the middle of it.

There is no once and for all moment when we can say that at last we are whole, the past is buried and over, the hurts forgotten, the wounds healed. Instead we find that it is to be a search that we must expect to continue throughout our lives.

I want to know what I want. For in setting forth

You are not here to prove your worthiness. You are worthy! You are here for the experience of joyful expansion.

Someone outside of you does not know if your chosen thought of anger is an improvement for you; only you know—by the relief that you feel— the appropriateness of any thought. Until you decide that you are going to guide yourself by the way you feel, you can make no steady progress toward your own desires.

If you want to learn how to be happy, you have to know what is sadness first.

A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.

Everything tells me that I need to live a more solitary life. The loveliest and most precious moments of my life are slipping away in amusements which, in truth, bring me nothing but boredom. (Sunday 4 April 1824)

We care more for our possessions with which we hope to make our way in the world than with our thoughts and dreams which tell us who we are in the world.