Quotes About Self-discovery

The more you know who you are and what you want, the less let things upset you

Thomas Merton wrote: "What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.

It is meditation that slowly purifies the ordinary mind, unmasking and exhausting its habits and illusions, so that we can, at the right moment, recognize who we really are.

Working with the dying is like facing a polished and fierce mirror of your own reality.

The "task" for which the "king" has sent us into this strange, dark country is to realize and embody our true being.

Meditation is the road to enlightenment.

En ausencia de los elementos de apoyo que nos resultan familiares, quedamos cara a cara tan sólo con nosotros mismos: una persona a la que no conocemos, un extraño desconcertante con quien hemos vivido siempre, pero al que, en el fondo, nunca hemos querido tratar. ¿Acaso no es ése el motivo de que tratemos de llenar cada instante de ruido y actividades, por aburridas y triviales que sean, y evitemos quedarnos a solas y en silencio con ese desconocido?

Al amar totalmente nuestra sombra, sus cualidades se transforman. La intriga se convierte en perspicacia, la intuición reemplaza a la manipulación y hay un surgimiento de la profunda sabiduría curativa de la mujer. Así son las mujeres que aceptan su verdadero poder femenino.

And I crept into my eyes. Alone with my daydreams of being woman.

I would always be lonely, but no more alone.

After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

Seems to me there's not much time to read about other people's lives and live your own while you're at it. If I have to choose, and I reckon I do, I'll choose living my own life over reading summat about someone else's.

Perhaps the truth is that I don't want to get my happiness-mystery solution from Aristotle, Schopenhauer or Katherine. I want to find it myself. I don't want to be helped or saved by a Poirot equivalent. I want to be the Poirot in my own life.

Sudden conviction races through me, almost terrifying in its total certainty. I can't give him up. He's the other part of me. He gets what it feels like to be separate from everything and everyone, to reject the path others lay out for you. We're the same. Two sides to the same coin.

Only now, here with Will, I realize I'm something more. Someone not bound by the rules of her pride, her race, her family. Someone who can be loved for herself, draki or not. "I thought about you," I whisper, my voice not my own. It belongs to someone else. Someone brave, someone about to risk everything and follow her heart. "I've never stopped thinking about you." Somehow, I doubt I ever will.

No longer do I fear. No longer do I let others define me. I know what I am. What I'm capable of. That I'm a girl... a woman who will fight to survive.

I've always had this deep-down conviction that I'm not like everybody else, and there's an amazingly exciting new life waiting for me just around the corner.

Whoever lost the truth has lost him/her self.

Have you ever been further away than yourself? Where?

We will never be more than we are meant to be!

No one can be alone when he befriends with the forgotten stranger inside him.

We can never succeed in knowing our own self without holidays and anniversaries.

O timid one, awaken, exert yourself, draw back the curtains your training and background have hung over the windows of your soul.

What then was the commencement of the whole matter? Existence that multiplied itself for sheer delight of being and plunged into numberless trillions of forms so that it might find itself innumerably.