Quotes About Self-discovery

Most of you guys can't see the potential in a nervous breakdown. A real collapse. There's more chance of finding yourself in a major depression than there is in a bottle Prozac.

But that's the hardest part of healing.' What?' Realizing there's no one to hate.

Kalbini ve akl?n? seksle bast?rarak bu mücadeleden kaç?nabilece?ini san?yorsun. Gerçek varl???ndan, seni usand?ran sorudan kaç?nabilmek için avc?y? seçtin. Gecenin en karanl?k an?nda, özünde, sen bir iyile?tirici misin yoksa avc? m?, benim doktorum musun yoksa infaz memurum mu?

Our careers aren't paths so much as landscapes that are navigated. We're free agents, entrepreneurs, and intrapreneurs—each with our own unique brand.

I don't really know exactly what I want to be, but I know what I don't want to be.

My 'failure' was a survival tactic, and without it I would probably never have worked my way out of the trap that my education had set for me. I would have ended up with a lot more of my consciousness blocked off from me than now.

The trick is to recognize the flaw in yourself and work to correct it.

Andrew created an amazing thing in my life. I had never thought about songwriting. He made me learn the craft, and at the same time I realized, yes, I am good at it. And slowly this whole other world opens up, because now you're not just a player, or trying to play like somebody else. It isn't just other people's expression. I can start to express myself, I can write my own music. It's almost

Interesting that the book used the word define. That's just what I've been thinking about. This business of defining who you are and what you are and where you are headed- it's all harder than I thought it would be. I thought that this stuff just... happened, I thought that life just happened, and I guess I thought I'd drift right along, like a leaf on a river, flowing with the current to wherever the river wanted to go.

By caring for the soul faithfully, every day, we step out of the way and let our full genius emerge.

writing can be used as a vehicle to express ourselves as we negotiate the journey through our lives.

What you are is God's gift to you. What you make of yourself is your gift back to God.

A monster. You and your friends, all of you. Pretty monsters. It's a stage all girls go through. If you're lucky you get through it without doing any permanent damage to yourself or anyone else.

In their 30s women really start to live... they're not children anymore, and they're not just mothers.

A man who truly knows himself realizes his own worthlessness, and takes no pleasure in the praises of men.

All life includes loss. It's taken me many, many years to learn to deal with that, and I don't expect I'll ever be fully resigned to it. But that doesn't mean we have to turn away from the world, or stop striving for the best that we can do and be. We owe that much to ourselves, at least, and we deserve whatever measure of good may come of it.

One Size Does Not Fit All Some of the most brilliant, creative people I know did not do well at school. Many of them didn't really discover what they could do—and who they really were—until they'd left school and recovered from their education.

Ultimately, the two most important questions to ask yourself in the search for your passion are: what do you love, and what do you love about it?

Many people go through their whole lives having no real sense of what their talents may be, or if they have any to speak of. Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep. You have to go looking for them, they're not just lying around on the surface.

The quest for your Element is really a two-way journey. It is an inward journey to explore what lies within you; it is an outward journey to explore opportunities in the world around you.

One of the most basic reasons for thinking that it's too late to be who you are truly capable of being is the belief that life is linear.

But it is difficult to feel accomplished when you're not accomplishing something that matters to you. Doing something 'for your own good' is rarely for your own good if it causes you to be less than who you really are. The decision to play it safe, to take the path of least resistance, can seem irresistible, particularly if you have your own doubts and fears about the alternatives.

When you add the noise of the external world to all the roles you take in it, it is easy to lose sight of who you really are. To find your Element, you need to regain that perspective. One way is to create time and space to be alone with yourself, to experience who you are when no one else wants anything from you and the noise has stopped. One method is to meditate.

No sabremos lo que podemos llegar a ser hasta que no sepamos lo que somos capaces de hacer.