Quotes About Self-discovery

Noteworthy is the fact that this 'other self' seldom exerts its influence or makes itself known excepting at times of unusual emergency, when men are forced, through adversity and temporary defeat

A burning desire to be and to do is the starting point from which the dreamer must take off. Dreams are not born of indifference, laziness, or lack of ambition. Remember that all who succeed in life get off to a bad start, and pass through many heartbreaking struggles before they "arrive." The turning point in the lives of those who succeed usually comes at the moment of some crisis, through which they are introduced to their "other selves.

you have a real life if and only if you do not compete with anyone in any of your pursuits

True humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others; the rest is either shyness or good marketing.

we need randomness, mess, adventures, uncertainty, self-discovery, near-traumatic episodes, all these things that make life worth living

Whatever you do, just don't be a dog claiming to be a wolf.

Se fue a Estados Unidos para meterse bajo el ala de su hermano. Sin embargo, los hermanos no tienen alas. Después de cierta edad te das cuenta de que o te apoyas en tus propias piernas o no hay nada que hacer.

She discovered the wings she never knew she had.

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed, they never dare to try. But I tell you, If music be the food of love, play on.

Most of us are capable of more than we believe.

The first act of honoring the self is the assertion of consciousness: the choice to think, to be aware, to send the searchlight of consciousness outward toward the world and inward toward our own being. To default on this effort is to default on the self at the most basic level.

Perhaps the essence of our evolution as human beings is to keep answering, on deeper and deeper levels, the basic question: Who am I?

Our motive is not to prove our worth, but to live our possibilities

The tragedy of many people's lives is that they look for self-esteem in every direction except within, and so they fail in their search. In

Genuine self-esteem is what we feel about ourselves when everything is not all right. This means, when we are challenged by the unexpected, when others disagree with us, when we are flung back on our own resources, when the cocoon of the group can no longer insulate us from the tasks and risks of life, when we must think, choose, decide, and act and no one is guiding us or applauding us. At such moments our deepest premises reveal themselves.

The better I know and understand myself, the better the life I can create. Self-examination is an imperative of a fulfilled existence.

Experiencing our feelings has direct healing power.

And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.

Her intellect and heart had their home, as it were, in desert places, where she roamed as freely as the wild Indian in his woods.

It was one of those moments - which sometimes occur only at the interval of years - when a man's moral aspect is faithfully revealed to his minds age.

She couldn't live her life as someone's prisoner the way he had lived his, caught up in a dream of the past, with no way forward and no way back, forced to dig down inside oneself.

This didn't make me sad exactly - it was more a feeling that my own world was too simple, too smooth, too boring and worthless. The most I could do was have another name, Ninna Hori.

Here was a man who wanted what no one had wanted before: he wanted to get to know the inner workings of the doll-like woman who was me. Karl wasn't interested in me; neither was Johnson. But Kijima's father liked me for who I was. The realization left me feeling numb. I was touched. But being touched is not the same as feeling desire. And I didn't exist without desire. If I didn't exist, then what?

How many were the years of my life that went by before my body, and my self became really mine, to do with them as I wished? How many were the years of my life that were lost before I tore my body and my self away from the people who held me in their grasp since the very first day?