Quotes About Self-discovery

Night, when words fade and things come alive, when the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.

All I would tell people is to hold on to what was individual about themselves, not to allow their ambition for success to cause them to try to imitate the success of others. You've got to find it on your own terms.

We teach what we need to learn and write what we need to know.

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself.

Recognizing what we have done in the past is a recognition of ourselves. By conducting a dialogue with our past, we are searching how to go forward.

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.

There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, "Yes, I've got dreams, of course, I've got dreams." Then they put the box away and bring it out once in a while to look in it, and yep, they're still there. These are great dreams, but they never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, "How good or how bad am I?" That's where courage comes in.

The process of writing a book is infinitely more important than the book that is completed as a result of the writing, let alone the success or failure that book may have after it is written . . . the book is merely a symbol of the writing. In writing the book, I am living. I am growing. I am tapping myself. I am changing. The process is the product.

Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he's only trying on one face after another till he finds his own.

Age 45. — At sixteen I was stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence?

I have reached a conclusion: there is no such thing as inspiration. I thought so once, and made an ass of myself accordingly.

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves — in finding themselves.

Idiot,si nuk e paske mesuar se armiku me i madh i njeriut eshte vetvetja? Si s'e ditke ti se nga tjetri ka gjase te shpetosh,por nga vetvetja kurre?

Kad bismo svi imali mogu?nosti, hrabrosti i snage da samo jedan dio svojih maštanja i najvrelijih želja pretvorimo u stvarnost, samo u jednom ?asu svoga života, bilo bi cijelom svijetu i nama samima odmah jasno ko smo, i šta sve mi ljudi možemo da postanemo i budemo.

Kod unutarnjih borba koje ?ovek vodi sa samim sobom i sa nepoznatim silama u sebi, važi više nego igde pravilo: ne predaj se nikad! - Ni predaje, ni ustupanja! A pre svega, što kažu u Bosni: ne veži tugu za srce!

When you enter a new experience, all that requires healing rushes to the surface . . . You have to pause.

Until you heal the wounds of your past, you are going to bleed. You can bandage the bleeding with food, with alcohol, with drugs, with work, with cigarettes, with sex; But eventually, it will all ooze through and stain your life. You must find the strength to open the wounds, Stick your hands inside, pull out the core of the pain that is holding you in your past, the memories and make peace with them.

When you are starting your life over, with a new sense of self, who you once were is going to challenge you. Who you once were is going to dangle old carrots, old wounds and issues, in front of your face. When that happens, you will be tempted to revert to old feelings, old patterns of thought, and old patterns of behavior.

Very often we claim to know something. We get an idea about what to do or not do, yet, for some reason our behavior doesn't change. At times, we just can't seem to do what we know. This is known as mental healing. Something has shifted in your thinking, but it has not reach the other levels of your being—the heart and the spirit.

HAD I NOT SPENT SO MUCH TIME DOING SOMETHING THAT MADE ME SO MISERABLE, I WOULD HAVE NEVER LEARNED HOW TO APPRECIATE DOING WHAT BRINGS ME JOY.  

Lives fall apart because they need to. They need to because they weren't built the right way in the first place.

Stop chasing things that are beneath the truth of who you are. Stop holding on to things and people that weigh you down. Stop behaving in ways that don't honor the divinity and nobility within you.

I had to find my sense of self, my authentic identity, my voice, and my center beyond the restrictions, limitations, and definitions that anyone else taught me, imposed upon me, or expected of me.