Quotes About Self-discovery

The years after graduation hardened me into someone quite different from the strutting graduate.. headed for New York City, ready to offer the world his talent. The world, I discovered, was not all that interested. I wandered around my early twenties, paying rent and reading classifieds and wondering why the lights were not turning green for me.

I've learned this much about marriage," he said now. "You get tested. You find out who you are, who the other person is, and how you accommodate or don't.

In this culture, it's so important to find a loving relationship with someone because so much of the culture does not give you that. But the poor kids today, either they're too selfish to take part in a real loving relationship, or they rush into marriage and then six months later, they get divorced. They don't know what they want in a partner. They don't know who they are themselves—so how can they know who they're marrying?

He was doing what man does when left with nothing. He was telling himself his own life story.

Forget what the culture says.

Para conocerte a ti mismo, que es lo mismo que comprender el mundo entero, no necesitas buscar más allá de las lindes de tu propia vida: el florido prado, los bosques inexplorados.

To comprehend yourself truly, which is also to comprehend the world truly, you needn't look any farther than at what abounds with life around you – the blossoming meadow, the untrodden woodlands. Without this as mankind's overriding objective, I don't foresee an age of actual enlightenment ever arriving.

Your adventure is your own. No one may ever take it from you.

There's a point to all the mistakes, the comebacks, the rethinking, the living--the living for all you're worth. There's a point to finding our own path. Please, give the people of Vision a chance to find theirs.

You do not know your own beauty, you struggle in grief, but I, I have seen it all, and I know: You yourself are the secret essence.

If he stayed, it would not be for them--need not be for them--but for himself. And yet each day he did stay. Bored and tense, true, but he stayed. And he discovered thereby how badly he wanted to stay. That the impulse to live was in him stronger than he might have imagined, undiminished by his bleak circumstances.

I feel the illusion I've twirled around me like a sari start to come undone and fall to my feet.

and the more he looked the less white he seemed, as though looking for his whiteness was the opposite of whiteness, was driving it further away, making him seem desperate

She had bumped me out of the center of my world. I'd become a baby person, and it felt good, better than what had come before.

Arif expended so much energy defining himself in opposition to other people, other musical tastes, other fashions, other views, other politics, other members of his own family that he was too exhausted to know who he really was. He thought she was weak and he was strong because he rebelled and she did not. But it took strength to work hard and do your duty, and it was she who had what she wanted in this world. He didn't even know what he wanted. She felt sorry for him.

His cheeks were all pinked up. Travel agreed with him, and she might have known: people like Quinn, always running from themselves, loved the road.

If only talking to oneself did not look mad, no day would go by without my being heard growling to myself. - you silly shit!

Kendimizden kaçmam?z, kendimizde olup biteni bilmememizdendir.

Retire within yourselves; but first prepare yourselves to receive yourselves there. It would be madness to trust yourselves to yourselves if you do not know how to control yourselves. There are ways of failing in solitude as well as in company.

Onun için kalabal?ktan kaçmak yetmez, bir yerden baÅŸka bir yere gitmekle iÅŸ bitmez. Ä°çimizdeki kalabal?ktan kurtulmam?z, kendimizi kendimizden koparmam?z gerek, böyle anlarda.

A garden is not a place. It's a journey.

I want something for myself, Grania was thinking, staring at her folded and clenched hands.

La historia está llena de sabios que no se han conocido nunca a sí mismos

I have frequently told you, and the holidays just past have convinced me, that my prime has truly begun. One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognise your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.