Quotes About Self-discovery

One can run away from anything but oneself

Has this new dress, this new world made me so different? Or was this inside me all along, and I was just too fainthearted, too timid? That's what Mother always said. Maybe everything's not so hard, maybe life is so much easier than I thought, you just need courage, you just need to have a sense of yourself, then you'll discover your hidden resources.

Sen, beni asla, asla tan?mayan, bir su birikintisinin yan?ndan geçercesine yan?mdan geçip giden, bir taÅŸa basarcas?na üstüme basan, hep, ama hep yoluna devam eden ve beni sonsuz bir bekleyiÅŸ içerisinde b?rakan sen, kimsin ki benim için?

La plus grande chose du monde c'est de savoir être à soi.

We also want to leave our own area behind, our domestic world so well regulated day to day; we are drawn by the desire no longer to be at home and therefore no longer to be ourselves. We want to interrupt a life where we merely exist, in order to live more.

Wer einmal sich selbst gefunden, kann nichts auf dieser Welt mehr verlieren. Und wer einmal den Menschen in sich begriffen, der begreift alle Menschen.

He is only a philosopher in the manner of Socrates, whom he revered above all others because he left behind no dogma, no teachings, no law, no system, only an example: the man who seeks himself in all and who seeks all in himself.

Une fois que quelqu'un s'est trouvé lui-même, il ne peut plus rien perdre dans ce monde. Et dès que quelqu'un a compris l'être humain qu'il y a en lui il comprend tous les humains.

He becomes an auto-psychologist. "What do I know?" he asks himself.

Once a man has found himself, there is nothing in this world that he can lose.

Daha iyi bir insan olduÄŸumu iddia edecek cesaretim yok elbette, ama daha mutlu bir insan olduÄŸumu biliyorum, çünkü o buz gibi donuk hayat?m için yeni bir anlam buldum, yaÅŸam?n kendisinden baÅŸka bir sözcükle aç?klayamayaca??m bir anlam.

L'ammirare esteticamente il talento in ogni sua forma porta irresistibilmente ad analizzare se stessi, per vedere se nel proprio fisico ancora misterioso o nell'anima ancora semisvelata non vi sia traccia o possibilità di quella sublime essenza.

Siente, precisamente ahora que su poder exterior toca a su fin, que en su interior comienza algo nuevo y grande que sin aquella prueba no habría sido posible. «Sólo en la desgracia se sabe en verdad quién se es»;

Or, il arrive inévitablement dans la vie de chacun un moment où, dans l'image de ce qu'il est, il rencontre de nouveau son propre père.

Erst im Unglück weiß man wahrhaft, wer man ist.

What Montaigne seeks is his interior self, that which cannot submit to state, to family, to time, to circumstances, to money, to property; this interior self, which Goethe labelled the "citadel", where all access is prohibited.

Aquí quiere vivir por sí misma, sin estorbos; no ser otra cosa sino la mujer joven, desmesuradamente adulada y adorada, que, en medio de mil superfluas ocupaciones, se olvida de todo, del reino, del esposo, de la corte, del tiempo, y a veces -y éstos son acaso sus minutos más dichosos- hasta de sí misma. Con Trianón, este espíritu desocupado ha encontrado por fin una ocupación, un juego, que se renueva constantemente.

For the more a man limits himself, the nearer he is on the other hand to what is limitless; it is precisely those who are apparently aloof from the world who build for themselves a remarkable and thoroughly individual world in miniature, using their own special equipment, termit-like.

Once a man has found himself there is nothing in this world that he can lose. And once he has understood the humanity in himself, he will understand all human beings.

Wer einmal sich selbst gefunden, kann nichts auf dieser Welt mehr verlieren.

Resist the temptation to be someone once again. Allow yourself to be no one; allow your mind to be empty of thought, unfurnished, until the identities gradually filter back in. Notice the space between your identities and the awareness of them. Notice if a similar gap appears at other times during the day, an empty space that you may have ignored before but can now lean into and prolong. Continue to open to the openness.

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

different aspects of our complexity are 'drawn out' by different people, and that it is also possible to experience ourselves differently and more positively in a less stressed, more mutually accepting relationship.

Many people who find it hard to be alone blame or despise themselves (or know themselves so little they do not realise that they can't be alone but fill their lives with work, people, noise, booze or drugs).