Quotes About Self-discovery

Daddy once said, "If you don't know what you believe, Annie, you'll be a lost soul.

They...think their traumas are the most interesting thing about them." "If their traumas are the most interesting things about them, how do they get over any of it?

Sadie was twenty-two when Ichigo was launched, and she hadn't figured out who she was in public yet. (She barely knew who she was in private.)

The awareness gave him pause: perhaps a funny-looking mixed-race kid could exist at the center of the world, not just on its periphery.

And yet, in K-town, he felt more Korean than he ever had before. Or to put a finer point on it, he felt more aware of the fact that he was a Korean and that that was not necessarily a negative or even a neutral fact about him. The awareness gave him pause: perhaps a funny-looking mixed-race kid could exist at the center of the world, not just on its periphery.

If their traumas are the most interesting things about them, how do they get over any of it?

Tell me something from Spanish literature," Schiele said. "I'll give you a line from my favorite novel. 'Los seres humanos no nacen para siempre el dia en que sus madres los alumbran, sino que la vida los obliga a parirse a si mismos una y otra vez.'" ("Humans are not born forever on the day their mothers have them; life necessitates giving birth to themselves over and over again.")

You don't want to meet someone like you too early in your life, or you won't ever like anyone else.

Read these and know my heart. We are not quite novels.

Hey, pretty girl. How you doing?" "Adopted," she says.

Humans are not born forever on the day their mothers have them; life necessitates giving birth to themselves over and over again.

She is thirty-one years old and she thinks she should have met someone by now. And yet . . . Amelia the bright-sider believes it is better to be alone than to be with someone who doesn't share your sensibilities and interests. (It is, right?)

Ta ??c sách ?? bi?t mình không cô Ä'Æ¡n. Ta ??c vì cô Ä'Æ¡n. Ta ??c và không còn cô Ä'Æ¡n. Ta không cô Ä'Æ¡n n?a.

It was strange, really. A couple months ago, I had thought I couldn't live without him. Apparently I could.

Meanwhile, the question is not whether we should 'lose ourselves' - since all do so in one way or another - but where we lose ourselves: in light or in darkness, in good dreams or in nightmares, in truth or in falsehood.

Grief is what tells you who you are alone.

I think solitude chose me.

The walk north was exactly the right distance to make me walk out of myself....If you walked out of yourself going north, what did you do on the return walk? Enjoyed my emptiness. Or sometimes just congratulated myself for escaping.

As we reach midlife, we are not prepared for the idea that time can run out on us, or for the startling truth that if we don't hurry to pursue our own definition of a meaningful existence, life can become a repetition of trivial maintenance duties.

There is nothing wrong with projecting this false self to the outside world during these early striving years, so long as it isn't too distant or disconnected from who we really are. Later, in the forties and fifties, it becomes imperative to find our way back to the truest things we know and to compose a more authentic self. Now

And somewhere between the late thirties and early forties when we enter midlife, we also have the opportunity for true adulthood, whereupon we proceed either to wither inside our husks or to regather and re-pot ourselves for the flowering into our full authenticity.

Trying to stabilize—that is what the twenties are all about. The

What is disassembling is that narrow self we have thus far put together in a form tailored to please the culture and other people.

You can't take everything with you when you leave on the midlife journey. You are moving away. Away from institutional claims and other people's agenda. Away from external valuations and accreditations, in search of an inner validation. You are moving out of roles and into the self.