Quotes About Self-discovery

nunca se puede escapar. Jamás. La única salida está por dentro.

This is the perfect place for insight, for a person to become somebody better.

I couldn't decide which was greater: the exhilaration of beating him at something physical for the first time in my life or the fear of the same.

That's the worst part, really, when you think about it. Try as you might, nobody will ever truly know who you are. You're just somebody alone in a house with your thoughts and nothing else.

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Try as you might, nobody will ever truly know who you are. You're just somebody alone in a house with your thoughts and nothing else.

It was as if he had lived all of his twenty-six years within an artificially narrow bandwidth of his potential personhood, only to have the scales fall abruptly from his eyes.

He has to come to it on his own.

She remembered no one at all. She remembered one day thinking: I am alone. There is no I but I. She lived in the dark. She taught herself to walk in the light, though it was not easy.

It won't be an easy journey - do not expect it to be. But the easy journeys are not worth the leather on the soles of our shoes, boy. It's the journeys that test us to our very core - the journeys that strip the clothes from our back, mess with our minds and shake our spirits - these are the journeys worth taking in life. They show us who we are.

I needed freedom to really express myself. That's really what Justified is about.

My teenage years were exactly what they were supposed to be. Everybody has their own path. It's laid out for you. It's just up to you to walk it.

Instead, he had given me a new term to describe the heavy layers that I had built in the Land of Beauty, one on top of the other: pentimenti. "It's from the Latin," he had said in that growly voice of his. "To repent. And correct.

What were those but maps that charted women's journeys as they traversed the rocky terrain separating girl from woman? Our maps, our histories, our reminders of how we found our truest selves?

I didn't want blind defiance to define me. Not anymore.

I had waited a long time to say those words, and I thought it would be hard to use them, that the claim would be too big for me. Surprisingly, it wasn't. I had grown into the words.

Have you ever felt kind of..." She paused. "Detached from the world? As if you didn't fit in, and you weren't interested in what everyone else was interested in? As if you belonged in a whole different world?" "Everyone feels that way sometimes," I said. "But you eat chocolate until the endorphins kick in, and the crazy thoughts go away." I grinned at her.

Basic fact of life: no matter how far you run, you always take yourself with you.

You don't need me. What you really need is a mirror. Because any stranger is for you simply a mirror in which to reflect yourself. I don't ever again want to return to such a desert of mirrors.

Don't go outside your house to see the flowers. My friend, don't bother with that excursion. Inside your body there are flowers. One flower has a thousand petals. That will do for a place to sit. Sitting there you will have a glimpse of beauty inside the body and out of it, before gardens and after gardens.

Neden ç?kars?n minareye? Tanr? sa??r m? ki? Medet umduÄŸunu gönlünde arasana, GerçeÄŸi evinde (kendinde) aramazs?n da, Ormandan ormana gezer durursun. Hakikat sendedir. Sende! Nereye gidersen git, ruhunu bulamad?ktan sonra, Senin için dünyan?n bir gerçekliÄŸi olamaz elbette.

Hey, Aidan! I have been going on the last couple years.

That summer of 1928, Robert was also reading the 1922 novel The Enormous Room, an account by e. e. cummings of his four-month incarceration in a French wartime prison camp. He loved cummings' notion that a man stripped of all his possessions can nevertheless find personal freedom in the most spartan of surroundings. The story would take on a new meaning for him after 1954.

People who don't follow their hearts are causing a great disservice to themselves, to the world, and to those who they stand by without love.