Quotes About Self-discovery

One of the things about incarceration is that you're deprived. You lose all of your identity, and then its given back one day, and you're ill-equipped to actually embrace it and work it.

I want to try it to see what it's like and see what my stuff looks like when I take it from inception to completion.

People in life take on certain stories and say, 'I'm going to be defined by this story and I'm going to live up to every inch of this story.' Sometimes you realize the story isn't fulfilling you and in fact you're not living the life that you're given.

People are inclined to say that I am Ramona. I'm not sure that's true, but I did share some experiences with her.

I found a scrap book that my mom had given to me, and inside was a letter that I wrote to myself at age 19. The letter included my goals and dreams for my life, and even then, I was writing about the management company that I built today.

What I tell people usually is - don't look at others and be like them. Instead, find out ways in which you can augment yourself and increase your capabilities and use it in different ways.

I mean, I like to think of myself as being strong and independent, but I definitely wasn't like that at 14.

Lots of women have shown interest in becoming a part of our group and we hope that Soul Purpose will encourage more and more women to hit the road independently.

Ich fand meinen Platz in seinem Leben nicht mehr. Hatte ich überhaupt einen, einen anderen als den geträumten?

Vermutlich muss man geraume Zeit in der Haut eines Menschen verbringen, der einem nicht ähnelt, ehe man zu dem wird, der man ist. Oder vielleicht hat man auch all diese vielfältigen Figuren in sich und muss sich von einer befreien, ehe man zur nächsten werden kann.

Davanti alla porta di lei gli sembrava di non dirlo al vento, per la prima volta dopo tanti mesi: «Sono sempre lo stesso, Fulvia. Ho fatto tanto, ho camminato tanto... Sono scappato e ho inseguito. Mi sono sentito vivo come mai e mi sono visto morto. Ho riso e ho pianto. Ho ucciso un uomo, a caldo. Ne ho visti uccidere, a freddo, moltissimi. Ma io sono sempre lo stesso.»

There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone.

In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.

Only secrets can be conquered'- most of all the secrets that lie within ourselves.

When writing of oneself one should show no mercy. Yet why at the first attempt to discover one's own truth does all inner strength seem to melt away in floods of self-pity and tenderness and rising tears?

If the stories come, you get them written, you're on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you.

Without heroes we are all plain people and don't know how far it is we can go.

One of the greatest Reasons why so few People understand themselves, is, that most Writers are always teaching Men what they should be, and hardly ever trouble their heads with telling them what they really are.

If you want to be original just try being yourself, because God has never made two people exactly alike.

Solitary walking forces us to confront ourselves, freeing us from the limitations of the body as well as those of our usual environment that restrict us to conventional, acceptable, and prepackaged ways of thinking.

We are on entirely different journeys. They cross the country, they view it and take pictures of it . . . but never walk through its front door. Aren't I clever, bragging like this, telling myself that I, unlike them, am an authentic traveler!

I was grateful to have him to support and steer me, even though he wasn't particularly good-looking or with a dashing personality, both attributes I'd imagined for a husband before I was mature enough to accept that it was easier to dream than it was to make the dream come true

except unlike you I don't have any disturbing psychological problems, Dom that's because you haven't dug deep enough to find them