Quotes About Self-discovery

Redefining oneself is something we all have to do ... The only person who could ever set bounds on you should be yourself.

Being a girl is complicated. But it isn't all bad, I have to admit.

Joy is that paradox where a man so trusts, is so enraptured, as to be caught up and lost in the other, while at the same time, being utterly known by the other, thus utterly himself.

We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innocence, to find our way out of the rubble of things alien to us, to begin to feel for ourselves and to speak ourselves, and I might almost say to exist ourselves.

Cuando releo mis viejos cuadernos de reflexiones, a veces doy con una idea propia que me satisface. Me sorprende que una idea se pueda volver tan ajena para mí y mi sistema, y me alegro tanto como si se le hubiera ocurrido a un antepasado.

Whom are you?" he asked, for he had attended business college.

Whom are you?" said he, for he had been to night school.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

This, I understood in a flash, was why people liked to dance. It made you forget who you were and at the same time remember who you were always meant to be.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

I just know when I quit looking to other people for directions, I found my own map.

Hi. And what kind of screwed-up beastie would you be?

What was wrong with my life and how did I get to this place?

He felt like an addict who, after abusing a narcotic for years, somehow found himself sober

Most people simply didn't realize they could do things that bent their reality. It was kind of like growing up in a land with no deep rivers or lakes. If you never tried, how would you know if you could swim? But

I broke my own heart, Leon. He was just the hammer I hit it with.

For a time you can be alone and doing fine and never give a thought to living any other way and then you meet someone and suddenly you become lonely.

Most people simply didn't realize they could do things that bent their reality. It was kind of like growing up in a land with no deep rivers or lakes. If you never tried, how would you know if you could swim?

There was light in Erra. There was also darkness, and when I looked deep into both, I recognized myself.

Però per què em dius tot això? Jo odio el meu passat! L'odio! - Perquè ell és tu i tu ets ell.

The egocentricity which motivated it was not that of the spoiled, but of the too little spoiled; the lonely. Had she been an artist she would have painted a self-portrait; instead she decorated two rooms, charging them with objects which some visitor, some day, would recognize and understand. And through that understanding he would divine all the capacities and longings she had found in herself and was unable to communicate.

The chief requirement of the good life', said Michael, 'is that one should have some conception of one's capacities. One must know oneself sufficiently to know what is the next thing. One must study carefully how best to use such strength as one has. ... One must perform the lower act which one can manage and sustain: not the higher act which one bungles.