Quotes About Self-discovery

To find your Element you have to get to know yourself better. You have to spend time with yourself, apart from other people's opinions of you.

She just needed to be who she really was.

Many people don't find their Element because they don't have the encouragement or the confidence to step outside their established circle of relationships

Dada la facilidad con la que nos distraemos, unos simples minutos cada día pueden ser un poderoso medio de reconectar con nosotros mismos, fortaleciendo la conciencia de quiénes somos bajo la superficie. Como la mayoría de las cosas que merece la pena hacer, no es fácil, pero siempre nos espera una recompensa.

Along the way, I've lost track of the numbers of people I've met who have no real sense of what their individual talents and passions are. They don't enjoy what they are doing now but they have no idea what actually would fulfill them.

no aceptas que piensas el mundo de muchas maneras diferentes, estarás limitando inexorablemente tus posibilidades de encontrar a la persona que se supone que tienes que ser. Una

The Element is about discovering your self, and you can't do this if you're trapped in a compulsion to conform. You can't be yourself in a swarm.

Very 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.

I sometimes think if I did not write I would be a madwoman. Now I am a sane woman with a lot of mad pages.

divinity lies not in heavenly or earthly gods but in the immortal god within each one of us.

Love slays what we have been, That we may be what we were not.

Love slays what we have been, That we may be what we were not. from "The Dragon and the Unicorn

Zen people almost never talk about hell or sin. For the real problem is ignorance, especially ignorance about our true identity.

I renounced what I considered to be my Christian faith at around age seventeen, not without fear and trembling. I found the idea of using God as a crutch totally distasteful. I preferred to be on my own. In hindsight I now see that my apparent abandonment of "faith" has actually paved the way for real faith. Sometimes, it is necessary to tear down the old so that the new can be built.

A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.

My quest these days is to find my long lost inner child, but I'm afraid if I do, I'll end up with food in my hair and way too in love with the cats.

Where ever men go, in heaven, or earth, or hell they find themselves, and that is all they find.

It all began to disappear, what my parents wanted from me, who they wanted me to be, the future they had so carefully planned.

There's this trope that repeats itself in the books you and I read to save our lives: that if where you grew up is killing you, you can leave and make a chosen, identity-based fam that takes up where your bio-fam left off.

Before reading this book, I did not understand that my power and my commitment to fighting oppression lay in finding those places where my experiences of privilege and oppression seem to be at odds with one another. Lorde's work and life taught me that I must not be afraid to go to those complex and "messy" places to understand myself, the history of my people, and to learn how to use my identities in a clear and subversive way.

Solitude is greater than I anticipated. My sense of values is changing, and many things which before were in solution in my mind now seem to be crystallizing. I am better able to tell what in the world is wheat for me and what is chaff. In fact, my definition of success itself is changing.

It takes courage for a fruit to fall far from her tree.

El aislamiento nos hacía más dueños de nuestras carencias".

Entonces renunciaba a imitarlo, renunciaba a tener personalidad, y adivinaba oscuramente que en la renuncia estaba mi única posibilidad de ser alguien.