Quotes About Self-discovery

The turning point in the lives of those who succeed usually comes at the moment of some crisis, through which they are introduced to their 'other selves'. John Bunyan

The turning point in the lives of those who succeed, usually comes at the moment of some crisis, through which they are introduced to their other selves.

Is a little experience too much to pay for learning to know oneself?

He remarked that each of us was barred from silent knowledge by natural barriers, specific to each individual; and that the most impregnable of my barriers was the drive to disguise my complacency as independence.

Com o tempo, a solidão mete-se dentro de nós e não sai mais.

All the geography, trigonometry, and arithmetic in the world are useless unless you learn to think for yourself. No school teaches you that. It's not on the curriculum.

A book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us.

Los libros son espejos: sólo se ve en ellos lo que uno ya lleva dentro

Books are boring.' 'Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

Los libros son espejos: sólo se ve en ellos lo que uno ya lleva dentro —replicó Julián.

Before I know it, I'll be thirty and I'll realise that every day I look less like the person I wanted to be when I was fifteen.

un libro es un espejo y que sólo podemos encontrar en él lo que ya llevamos dentro, que al leer ponemos la mente y el alma, y que ésos son bienes cada día más escasos.

Un livre est un miroir ou nous trouvons seulement ce que nous portons déjà en nous

Learning how to differentiate between why one does things and why one says one does them is the first step toward getting to know oneself. And from there to no longer being a cretin, there's still quite a way to go.

He'd come to the conclusion that you never really know who you are until you learn to hate. And when you really hate, when you abandon yourself to that anger that burns you inside, that slowly consumes what little good you thought you had in your baggage, you do it secretly.

El año en que Alicia Gris llegó a Madrid, su mentor y titiritero, Leandro Montalvo, le enseñó que cualquiera que aspire a conservar su sano juicio necesita de un lugar en el mundo en el que pueda y desee perderse.

Ksi??ki s? lustrem: widzisz w nich tylko to co, ju? masz w sobie.

Isn't that why people write - to gain a better understanding of themselves and of the world?

Los libros son espejos: sólo se ve en ellos lo que uno ya lleva dentro - La Sombra del Viento, Carlos Ruíz Zafón

it true you haven't read any of these books?' 'Books are boring.' 'Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you,' answered Julián.

Knjiga je pismo koje pisac pise sam sebi, kako bi si rekao stvari koje drugacije ne bi mogao shvatiti.

Había llegado a la conclusión de que uno no sabe quién es de verdad hasta que aprende a odiar

Julián lived within himself, for his books and inside them—a comfortable prison of his own design

Julián me había dicho alguna vez que un relato era una carta que el autor se escribe a sí mismo para contarse cosas que de otro modo no podría averiguar.