Quotes About Self-discovery

Valódi éned még mindig kisgyerek, aki sohase nÅ' fel. Néha elÅ'bújik ez a kisgyerek, amikor örülsz vagy játszol, ha boldog vagy, ha festesz, verset írsz, zongorázol, vagy valamilyen egyéb formában fejezed ki magad. Ezek életed legboldogabb pillanatai - elÅ'bukkan valódi éned.

The freedom we are looking for is the freedom to be ourselves, to express ourselves.

Había descubierto que era un espejo para los demás, un espejo en el que podía verse a sí mismo.

Si alguien no te trata con amor ni respeto, que se aleje de ti es un regalo. Si esa persona no se va, lo más probable es que soportes muchos años de sufrimiento con ella. Que se marche quizá resulte doloroso durante un tiempo, pero finalmente tu corazón sanará. Entonces, elegirás lo que de verdad quieres. Descubrirás que, para elegir correctamente, más que confiar en los demás, es necesario que confíes en ti mismo.

The real you is still a little child who never grew up.

Eventually we become someone that we are not. We become a copy of Mamma's beliefs, Daddy's beliefs, society's beliefs, and religion's beliefs.

Buscamos ser lo que éramos antes de creer en las mentiras: auténticos, verdaderos, amorosos, dichosos. La verdad es que estamos buscando nuestro Yo.

Belki gerçekten istediÄŸiniz ÅŸeyi bilmek için kendinize yalan söylemekten vazgeçmeniz gerekebilir.

la verdad nos libera de nuestros engaños.

One day, as he slept in a cave, he dreamed that he saw his own body sleeping. He came out of the cave on the night of a new moon. The sky was clear, and he could see millions of stars. Then something happened inside of him that transformed his life forever. He looked at his hands, he felt his body, and he heard his own voice say, "I am made of light; I am made of stars.

Even the opinions you have about yourself are not necessarily true; therefore, you don't need to take whatever you hear in your own mind personally.

We were brought into this world as authentic beings, and then we began to practice "who we are" until it became a mastery. At any stage in our adult lives we can unpractice; we can let go of our attachments to an identity . . . and we can be.

That was life, in small - her own life, or anyone's. You spent it grubbing desperately for the physical things that would prolong it. For food mainly, and then if you were lucky enough to be fed, for shelter. And all the time in between you spent dreaming of places you couldn't go and things you could never have. You used it up trying to fit yourself into the spaces that would work, instead of unfolding yourself into the space that was yours and then seeing where that took you.

I've never understood what people mean when they say they have to find themselves. We know who we are. The hard part is being that person. It's always so much easier to be someone else.

I've never understood what people mean when they say they have to find themselves. We know who we are. The hard part is being that person. It's always so much easier to be someone else.

Idzie o to, ?e czÅ'owiek, który w gÅ'Ä™bi siebie nie kryje niespodzianki, z reguÅ'y nie bywa interesujÄ…cy.

I was not a hypocrite, with one real face and several false ones. I had several faces because I was young and didn't know who I was or wanted to be.

Just imagine living in a world without mirrors. You'd dream about your face and imagine it as an outer reflection of what is inside you. And then, when you reached forty, someone put a mirror before you for the first time in your life. Imagine your fright! You'd see the face of a stranger. And you'd know quite clearly what you are unable to grasp: your face is not you.

I have no mission. No one has.

Agnes subtracts from her self everything that is exterior and borrowed, in order to come closer to her sheer essence (even with the risk that zero lurks at the bottom of the subtraction). Laura's method is precisely the opposite: in order to make her self ever more visible, perceivable, seizable, sizeable, she keeps adding to it more and more attributes and she attempts to identify herself with them (with the risk that the essence of the self may be buried by the additional attributes).

The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. that is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them. Each one has crossed a border that I myself have circumvented.

She now knew there were conditions under which she could feel strong and fulfilled, and she longed to go off into the world and seek those conditions somewhere else.

Estuve tanto tiempo mirándome al espejo que al final me convencí de que lo que veía era yo.

She had always taken it as a given that emigrating was a misfortune. But, now she wonders, wasn't it instead an illusion of misfortune, an illusion suggested by the way people perceive an émigré? Wasn't she interpreting her own life according to the operating instructions other people had handed her? And she thought that even though it had been imposed from the outside and against her will, her emigration was perhaps, without her knowing it, the best outcome for her life.