Quotes About Self-discovery

It must not be forgotten that it is just in the imagination that a man's highest value may lie.

adaptedness) of the conscious mind by adding to it contents of the unconscious, our aim is to create a wider personality whose centre of gravity does not necessarily coincide with the ego, but which, on the contrary, as the patient's insights increase, may even thwart his [sheer] ego-tendencies. Like a magnet, the new centre [i.e., self] attracts to itself that which is proper to it.80

He is incapable of living his own life and finding the character that belongs to him.

But this one-sided development must inevitably lead to a reaction, since the suppressed inferior functions cannot be indefinitely excluded from participating in our life and development. The time will come when the division in the inner man must be abolished, in order that the undeveloped may be granted an opportunity to live.

Até você se tornar consciente, o inconsciente irá dirigir sua vida e você vai chamá-lo de destino

Here again it is obvious that Schiller is writing, as always, only from the standpoint of the introvert. The extravert, whose ego resides not in thinking but in the feeling relation to the object, actually finds himself through the object, whereas the introvert loses himself in it.

see both sides. [We] become aware not only of [our] moral inferiorities but also, automatically, of [our] good qualities. [We] rightly say, "I can't be as bad as all that." To confront a person with his shadow is to show him his own light.

become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

The direct outcome of this renunciation is individualism,71 that is, the need for a realization of individuality, a realization of man as he is.

Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Marriages fall apart every day," she told her reflection. "Other women live through it. So will you." But how? Claire moved closer to the mirror and stared into her eyes, eyes that Kirk claimed were the color of the irises that bloomed every spring under their front window. Who was this woman staring back at her? A wife. A mother. Who else? What did other people see? What did they think?

I admire you. You have learned to rise with the wind, rather than fight it. Too many people struggle to become what is expected of them, when, as we both know, what is expected of us is rarely what we desire.

Cada um sabe a dor e a delícia de ser o que é...

Uma dose de amnésia, e duas de desapego, por favor.

Zézim, ninguém te ensinará os caminhos. Ninguém me ensinará os caminhos. Ninguém nunca me ensinou caminho nenhum, nem a você, suspeito. Avanço às cegas. Não há caminhos a serem ensinados, nem aprendidos. Na verdade, não há caminhos.

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To be at peace with ourselves we need to know ourselves.

when you avoid solitude, you miss out on the positive things it brings you: the ability to clarify hard problems, to regulate your emotions, to build moral courage, and to strengthen relationships.

three crucial benefits provided by solitude: "new ideas; an understanding of the self; and closeness to others.

First, how do you inject free time into your schedule without simply quitting everything and looking like a slacker? Second, how do you effectively "explore" in this free time without having it degenerate into a morass of TV watching and Web surfing?

I am here alone for the first time in weeks, to take up my "real" life again at last.21 That is what is strange—that friends, even passionate love, are not my real life unless there is time alone in which to explore and to discover what is happening or has happened. Without the interruptions, nourishing and maddening, this life would become arid. Yet I taste it fully only when I am alone …

Writing a letter to yourself is an excellent mechanism for generating exactly this type of solitude. It not only frees you from outside inputs but also provides a conceptual scaffolding on which to sort and organize your thinking. Not surprisingly, I'm not the only person to discover this particular solitude hack.

Solitude requires you to move past reacting to information created by other people and focus instead on your own thoughts and experiences—wherever you happen to

Lincoln's time alone with his thoughts played a crucial role in his ability to navigate a demanding wartime presidency. We can therefore say, with only mild hyperbole, that in a certain sense, solitude helped save the nation.