Quotes About Self-discovery

Too many women have gone through. I am at last alone without being alone.

we are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting it is as if the sun were a mind that has given up on us.

I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me. I took a drink of wine. Suddenly

it took me a long time to find the most interesting person to drink with: myself

And I mean you and nobody but you.

I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me.

Por muy pequeño que sea un hombre, siempre descubrirá que puede serlo más.

Nunca estoy solo. Lo mejor es estar solo, pero no del todo.

I look into myself and find perfect emptiness

he estado solo pero rara vez me he sentido solo he saciado mi sed en el pozo de mi ser, y el vino era bueno, el mejor que he probado

I got into bed, opened the bottle, worked the pillow into a hard knot behind my back, took a deep breath, and sat in the dark looking out of the window. It was the first time I had been alone for five days. I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me. I took a drink of wine.

I wasn't interested in world history, only my own. What crap. Your parents controlled your growing-up period, they pissed all over you. Then when you got ready to go out on your own, the others wanted to stick you into a uniform so you could get your ass shot off.

It wasn't so much that I was TRYING to be a writer, it was more like doing something that felt good to do.

Then he spoke. "I just want to find out. I just want to find out for myself." "I don't come cheap." "How much?" "6 bucks an hour." "That doesn't seem like much money." "Does to me. You got a photo of your wife?

Can you remember who you were before the world told you who you should be?

Some authors say they write to keep from going insane. I say,why limit yourself?

Ä°nsan kendinin s?n?flay?c?s? olmasayd?, kendini yerleÅŸtirmek için ayr? bir tak?m kurmay? asla düÅŸünmezdi.

I sometimes imagine meeting my seventeen-year-old self. She's still here inside me somewhere. Maybe one morning in the mirror, there she'll be. I look at her with affection and understanding and hope. She sees me and backs away in horror while I try to explain why I made the choices I made.

Él ya nos conoce mejor de lo que nos conocemos a nosotros mismos, y ya sabe lo que el futuro depara. ¡Él usa las pruebas para revelarnos a nosotros mismos!

It seems I have not been truly myself for a long time," he says, barely whispering, a dry, papery sound like files shuffling in a dead document archive.

my middle names aren't Oliver and Francis.

What makes us leave what we love best? What is it inside us that keeps erasing itself When we need it most, That sends us into uncertainty for its own sake And holds us flush there until we begin to love it And have to begin again? What is it within our own lives we decline to live Whenever we find it, making our days unendurable, And nights almost visionless? I still don't know yet, but I do it.

Say who you are, really say it in your life and in your work...Give that to the world, rather than selling something to the world. Don't allow yourself to be tricked into thinking that the way things are is the way the world must work and that in the end selling is what everyone must do. Try not to.

D?gen Zenji said, "To look for the Buddha dharma outside of yourself is like putting a devil on top of yourself." Master Rinzai said, "Place no head above your own." That is, to look outside of ourselves for true peace and satisfaction is hopeless.