Quotes About Self-discovery

Dans le regard des autres, nous recherchons d'abord notre propre reflet. Nous nous mettons en quête d'un unique miroir de référence. Cela signifie se mettre en quête de l'amour mais, en fait, il s'agit plutôt de la quête de sa propre identité. Un coup de foudre s'avère souvent la trouvaille d'un bon miroir, nous renvoyant un reflet satisfaisant de nous-même. On cherche alors à s'aimer dans le regard de l'autre.

I felt a great emptiness inside, as if I had been searching for some glimpse, not outside but within myself, and had discovered that there was nothing to be found.

? nhà tôi, cô th?y mình nhÆ° k? Ä'á»™t nh?p.

am I me and you are you

A todos los jóvenes con talento que van por ahí convencidos de que no tienen nada que hacer en el mundo, yo les diría: «Deja de intentar escribir y en cambio intenta no escribir. Sal al mundo, hazte pirata, rey en Borneo u obrero en la Rusia soviética; búscate una existencia en que la satisfacción de necesidades físicas elementales ocupe todas tus energías».

To all the talented young men who wander about feeling that there is nothing in the world for them to do, I should say: "Give up trying to write, and, instead, try not to write. Go out into the world; become a pirate, a king in Borneo, a laborer in Soviet Russia; give yourself an existence in which the satisfaction of elementary physical needs will occupy almost all your energies.

Most of what I learnt at Cambridge had to be painfully unlearnt later; on the whole, what I had learnt for myself from being left alone in an old library had proved more solid.

You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

But you can't just believe in Him to be free from your stronghold. You must believe Him. Believe He can do what He says He can do. Believe you can do what He says you can do. Believe He is who He says He is. And believe you are who He says you are.

I did get a reputation for being choosy and not very easy to be approached, and none of that is true. It is not that I am not approachable, it is just that I am trying to find myself and establish who I am as an artist.

Every time we put out a piece of art, it continues to define who we are. What could possibly be more important than that and require more of your focus and your time and your energy.

My faith did not require beauty or belonging - the deeper I went into my practice, the less it required at all.

Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves.

I'm reserved, so I've always needed to find a way of opening up. Jazz helped me do that.

When I first started, I was definitely reserved,. I was still trying to find myself.

You can't shut down. You can't say, 'What can I do to make this go away?' You have to let it be painful and get through it. Every day gets better. Because when you're in love, you kind of give everything and make that person your life. So every day, you get more and more of yourself back, and it feels better.

For me, 'The Kite Runner' became about a guy who's emotionally shut down because he hasn't confronted his past.

There's always a way to pull back and discredit ourselves, but once you just shut that out and start doing it, you realize things about yourself that you never thought were possible.

It's not about shutting people up or proving them wrong. It's about proving to ourselves what we're about.

I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives.

I was a shy kid, a late bloomer. At 22, I was probably 16 emotionally.

With regards to the paint, I'm normally quite introverted and shy. I keep myself to myself, and I find that when I hide behind the paint, so to speak, I'm able to let myself go more and move more freely than I can without it.

Even though I feel I am a bit reticent and shy, performing arts like dancing and acting is like my alter ego.

Until I was about 14, I was so shy.