Quotes About Self-discovery

She went by the name of Belisa Crepusculario, not because she'd been born with it or baptized it, but because she herself had searched until she found the poetry of 'beauty' and 'twilight' and cloaked herself in it. She made her living selling words.

Estoy encontrando nuevas fuerzas en mí, que tal vez siempre tuve, pero no conocía porque hasta ahora no había necesitado ejercerlas. No sé en qué vuelta del camino se me perdió la persona que yo antes

Because I have time to spare, and for the first time in my life nobody expects anything of me. I don't have to prove anything. I'm not rushing anywhere; each day is a gift I enjoy to the fullest.

Dicen que las mujeres muy bellas son inolvidables, espero que aprendas a vivir sin ella, aunque no la olvides.

Ya todos estamos en edad de tirar por la borda los sentimientos que no sirven para nada y quedarnos sólo con aquellos que nos ayudan a vivir.

Ahora, con la perspectiva del tiempo y de la libertad que he adquirido en los últimos años, comprendo cuánto me humillé por amor. Dejé de lado todo, desde mi personalidad hasta mi trabajo, por soñar en un paraíso doméstico que no era para mí.

Todos somos héroes de nuestra propia historia.

Qué sucederá con este gran espacio vacío que ahora soy? ¿con qué me llenaré cuando ya no quede ni una brizna de ambición, ningún proyecto, nada de mí?

I wait for you to complete the voyage into yourself, for the old wounds to heal. I know that when you return from your nightmares, we shall again walk hand in hand, as before.

Tijdens de lange reis in het voetspoor van een onmogelijke romance had Eliza iets verworden dat even waardevol was als de liefde: vrijheid

No se preguntaba por qué rehuía el amor, ya que la respuesta le parecía obvia: era su ineludible penitencia. Con el tiempo se había acostumbrado a sus hábitos de monje y a ese silencio interno de los que viven y duermen solos.

acabé de hacerme mujer y aprendí a conducir el timón de mi existencia, no siempre en la forma más elegante, es cierto, pero hay que tener en cuenta que me ha tocado navegar en aguas revueltas.

This is good news for women in general: Life gets easier once we get through menopause and are done with raising kids, but only if we minimize

I'm fine here, Lenny. I'm discovering who I am without all my ornaments and accessories. It's quite a slow process, but a very useful one. Everybody ought to do the same at the end of their life. If I had any self-discipline I would beat my grandson to it and write my own memoirs. I have time, freedom, and silence, the three things I never had amidst all the noise of my earlier life. I'm preparing to die.

Alma was so solitary a person that she had never realized how lonely she was.

I consider writing practice a true Zen practice because it all comes back at you. You can't fool anyone because it's on the page.

We all want to be special, to stand out; there's nothing wrong with this. The irony is that every human being is special to start with, because we're unique to start with. But we then go through some sort of boot camp from the age of zero to about 18 where we learn everything we can about how not to be unique.

Having had cancer, one important thing to know is you're still the same person at the end. You're stripped down to near zero. But most people come out the other end feeling more like themselves than ever before.

I no longer feel attracted to the well-made novel. I want to write the story that will zero in and give you intense, but not connected, moments of experience. I guess that's the way I see life. People remake themselves bit by bit and do things they don't understand.

I want people to get a better sense of who I am, whether they've seen every video or zero videos.

Throughout my whole teenage years, I had zero confidence and had to build it from the bottom up.

When I came out when I was 18, and I graduated from high school, and I felt like that was the time to officially say it, I surprised zero people in my family.

When I first started out in Telugu cinema, I signed anything and everything that came my way. I was 18, was immature, and it felt like a good idea that 'Oh, they are paying me a good amount of money.' I was young, naive; I had zero ambition, and honestly, it wasn't my calling.

It's hard to be creative and to see your potential when you've not even got ground zero, when you've not even got the foundations to be able to express yourself.