Quotes About Self-discovery

Be you dust; or be you star To be what you must Just reach out for what you are

I'm here by choice, I reminded myself. I'm here because I can't bear to be not- here anymore. I'm here because I can't tell right from wrong, light from dark. I'm here because I can't stand being me. I'm here because I don't want anyone to know where I am.

I can't help who I am," I pointed out. "i mean, do you think I should just hide?" I tapped one finger against my chin. "Gee, if only there was some place , some safe place, like in the middle of freaking nowhere , where I could surround myself with strong immortals and maybe learn how to protect myself and...oh, wait!" I looked at Solis, my eyes wide with excitement. "Oh my God--that sounds like here ! It sounds like I'm already actually doing exactly what you thing I should be doing! Awesome!

Actually, now that I thought about it, I couldn't place when our "bests" had been. When had either one of us been at our best? Hmm. There might be a message here somewhere. I'll let you know if I find it.

Por vezes, quando um homem não consegue encontrar respostas seja para onde quer que se volte, acaba por descobrir algumas no fundo de uma garrafa

If I haven't found out who I am until the end of my life…because I am afraid/ashamed of it, then I would have just pretended to live. Initmacy really means to find something out about yourself that is deep inside.

None of us have much idea where we are. Perhaps all our lives are too concerned with where, and not enough with who.

Do you seek the key to Incarceron? Look inside yourself. It has always been hidden there. - The mirror of dreams to Sapphique

Who can chart the vastness of Incarceron? Its halls viaducts, its chasms? Only the man who has known freedom Can define his prison.

The face I saw always seemed to belong to a stranger - was it because I tried to please too many people too often, and had never given myself a chance to let my own personality come through on it?

How could I pretend to be someone else when I was already failing at being the person I already was?

Everyone I looked at, their whole lives, did exactly what they were supposed to do without even questioning it, without even wondering if they could do something different.

And if I didn't, I'd spend the rest of my life wondering who I could have turned into if only I'd had the guts to try.

With time, when I was very old and in my twenties, I might find a man to love, not one forced upon me…

Effective therapy is about lowering your defences so that you can deal with the issues that arise in your life.

True insights happen only when the therapist gets out of the way so that the patient is able to gain his or her own psychological knowledge.

There's always the danger that the extreme feminist will end up quite unfulfilled as a girl.

It is necessary, then, to give the child the possibility of developing according to the laws of his nature, so that he can become strong, and, having become strong, can do even more than we dared hope for him. —Maria Montessori

I know this is going to come as a shock to me, but I am leaving me. Perhaps I`ll say I could not have seen this coming, but truthfully things have been wrong between me for some time. Time heals and I`m sure in time I`ll build a new life without me

You can't tell someone to pursue their dream only if it's a good match for your own. You can't dictate what dream he should pursue.

Well, you know how it is. We either grow up to be our mother or we make a solemn vow to the universe to be her polar opposite. Doesn't work every minute of every day, though.

We did exactly what we were supposed to do." "Us?" he asked. "Yes. Us. We did exactly what our parents taught us. We got married in the church, and we tried to have a bunch of kids. We lived the life everybody told us was right. And now look at us. Tina is gone. We're apart. Why did we do just what we were supposed to do if it wasn't even going to make us happy?

Ethan wondered if it was the first time any of his emotions had ever felt free.

what, or to whom? She'd long ago given up on any sort of God—probably while she was still a child—particularly the one forced on her by her parents. It seemed wrong to drag that relationship back into play now simply because she was afraid. It felt two-faced and selfish. She