Quotes About Self-discovery

Perhaps understanding was more important than Love, and perhaps the highest form of understanding was the understanding of oneself, one's motives and desires and capabilities. Constance thought about this but the idea didn't appeal to her much. She dismissed it.

Probably nothing serious or worthwhile can be accomplished without one's willingness to be alone for sustained periods of time, which is not to say that one must live alone, obsessively.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women, and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves.

Sometimes a person has to leave home to become who they need to be.

I am all that I am not, and I am not what I shall become—who knows?

Desde la última vez que nos vimos, pensé, estuvo aprendiendo a jugar, a no querer a nadie, y éste es un duro aprendizaje. Pero no había llegado aún a quererse a sí mismo, a aceptarse; era a la vez sujeto y objeto, se miraba vivir dispuesto a la sorpresa, incapaz de determinar qué actos eran suyos, cuáles prestados o cumplidos por capricho. Estaba en la edad del miedo, se protegía con dureza e intolerancia.

El alma está hecha de pequeños compartimentos autocontenidos, como una muñeca rusa. Si sigues abriendo y abriendo, acabas encontrando la última de las muñecas. Y su rostro nunca es como el de la muñeca más grande. Ese último rostro puede ser mezquino y cruel.

Es el perpetuo, empequeñecedor coro de quienes han decidido lo que soy antes de darme la oportunidad de ser otra cosa.

Se te converteres noutro sem deixares de ser tu, nunca mais te sentirás sozinho.

Don't run, go slowly, It is only to yourself that you have to go! Go slowly, don't run, For the child of yourself, just born and eternal Cannot follow you.

Must we think of the spirit as something divine that comes from without, that makes us divine? No, it is not that, to me it seems it is not that. The divine is in us, in our own intrinsic humanity, like a diamond in a mine. (La Corriente Infinita)

En la soledad no se encuentra más que lo que a la soledad se lleva.

We are who we are, within our power and freedom. More power and more freedom we have, more we become closer to who we truly are.

See? It's easy. Try. Try the exquisite pleasure of surprising yourself.

the surest kind of knowledge is what you construct yourself.

We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.

See? Haven't lost your sense of humor after all but your sense of identity is what seems to have been misplaced. No. Wrong. You can't lose what you never had.

You might say that we use ourselves to discover ourselves.

Abiding Practice can remind us that there is nothing we need for wholeness that does not already exist within us.

the answers are within me. ?Life is practice, practice is life. ?I commit to living my life fully in this moment.

It's a gift to let other people be themselves. Let them face their own difficulties.

The launching pad for emotional freedom is always yourself.

We all have our midnight madnesses.