Quotes About Self-discovery

for the second half of life to be better than the first, you must make the choice to step outside of the safety of living on autopilot. You must wrestle with who you are, why you believe what you profess to believe about your life, and what you do to provide meaning and structure to your daily activities and relationships.

Likewise, for the second half of life to be better than the first, you must make the choice to step outside of the safety of living on autopilot. You must wrestle with who you are, why you believe what you profess to believe about your life, and what you do to provide meaning and structure to your daily activities and relationships.

A distinctive of my second half is that I set aside time for introspection almost every weekend. My few hours of uninterrupted reading and thinking are the wellspring from which I draw living water to nurture the activities of the rest of my week.

How was it that I could be so successful, so fortunate, and yet so frustratingly unfulfilled?

She likes a quote by Dolly Parton: "Decide who you are, and then do it on purpose.

But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.

Lecz uÅ›miecham siÄ™, bo w teczce niosÄ™ ksi??ki, po których siÄ™ spodziewam, ?e wieczorem dowiem siÄ™ z nich o samym sobie czegoÅ›, czego jeszcze nie wiem.

Sunt educat împotriva voinÅ£ei mele,de aceea nici m?car nu ÅŸtiu care sunt ideile mele ÅŸi care sunt cele citite.

I can be by myself because I'm never lonely, I'm simply alone, living in my heavily populated solitude, a harum-scarum of infinity and eternity, and Infinity and Eternity seem to take a liking to the likes of me.

yo puedo permitirme el lujo de abandonarme porque nunca estoy abandonado, estoy solo para poder vivir en una soledad poblada de pensamientos...

smiling, because my briefcase is full of books and that very night I expect them to tell me things about myself I don't know.

Bo widzisz, najgorsz? samotno?ci? nie jest ta, która otacza cz?owieka, ale ta pustka w nim samym.

Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing. They are the ones who discover what is most important and strangest and most pleasurable in themselves, and keep believing in the value of their work, despite the difficulties.

It's hard enough to figure out how to live ... without worrying about what the hell's normal.

She hoped Smoke was wrong about people being unknowable. She hoped that she could crack herself open like a nut and know herself, at least. Then she'd be able to start figuring out everybody else.

My insides contract- bad. "who are you?" I ask right out loud. And he says what I've been afraid of since I killed Lester's father. Haven't you guessed? I'm you. The real you.

The past is not a place I like to visit. This project is forcing me to go there, to tidy up my thoughts. I'm not normally a navel-gazer. I've always thought you find yourself in other people. I'm visiting here. I don't want to set up house.

A degree of narcissism is necessary, I suppose, to look in the pool to see your reflection. (Bono)

Al subir al ring, el púgil más preparado es el que ha intentado conocer a su adversario. Sobre todo si eres tú mismo.

Don't ignore the past, but deal with it, on your own pace. Once you deal with it, you are free of it and you are free to embrace your life and be a happy loving person because if you don't, the past will come back to haunt and keep coming back to haunt you.

New situations inspire new thoughts. Here is the benefit of travelling, much more than in mere sight-seeing. We lose ourselves in the streets of our own city, and go abroad to find ourselves.

A lot of what I've been learning in the last two years is due to therapy - about my sexuality, why things go wrong, why relationships haven't worked. It isn't anything to do with anybody else it's to do with me.

Meaninglessness is of great value. When you finally get that who you actually are is empty and meaningless, it doesn't matter to you whether you are a jerk or not. There is where your power lives.

Or, as Goethe summed it: "Know thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away.