Quotes About Self-discovery

There is no such thing as a perfect leader. We have to learn to lead ourselves.

We are so many selves. It's not just the long-ago child within us who needs tenderness and inclusion, but the person we were last year, wanted to be yesterday, tried to become in one job or in one winter, in one love affair or in one house where even now, we can close our eyes and smell the rooms. What brings together these ever-shifting selves of infinite reactions and returnings is this: There is always one true inner voice. Trust it.

Kirjoittaminen on ainoa asia, jota tehdessäni minusta ei tunnu siltä, että minun pitäisi tehdä jotain muuta.

My father did not have to trade dying alone for the joys of the road. My mother did not have to give up a journey of her own to have a home. Neither do I. Neither do you.

Taking to the road—by which I mean letting the road take you—changed who I thought I was. The road is messy in the way that real life is messy. It leads us out of denial and into reality, out of theory and into practice, out of caution and into action, out of statistics and into stories—in short, out of our heads and into our hearts.

There is a healthier self within each of us, just wating for encouragement

You're always the person you were when you were born," she says impatiently. "You just keep finding new ways to express it.

You're always the person you were when you were born. You just keep finding new ways to express it.

As Vita Sackville-West wrote: I worshipped dead men for their strength, Forgetting I was strong.

In the words of so many daughters who don't yet know that a female fate is not a personal fault, I told myself: I'm not going to be anything like my mother.

Artists strive to free this true and spontaneous self in their work. Creativity, meditation are ways of freeing an inner voice.

The best thing about self-defense is knowing there is a self

Taking to the road - by which I mean letting the road take you - changed who I thought I was. The road is messy in the way that real life is messy. It leads us out of denial and into reality, out of theory and into practice, out of caution and into action, out of statistics and into stories - in short, out of our heads and into our hearts. It's right up there with life-threatening emergencies and truly mutual sex as a way of being fully alive in the present.

I confused growing up with settling down.

safety. As Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote, "When the slave leaves bondage, his first act is to name himself.

If I had one piece of advice to give to young girls, I would say, "Don't listen to my advice. Listen to the voice inside." It's not important that they know who I am, it's important that they know who they are.

Taking to the road—by which I mean letting the road take you—changed who I thought I was. The road is messy in the way that real life is messy. It leads us out of denial and into reality, out of theory and into practice, out of caution and into action, out of statistics and into stories—in short, out of our heads and into our hearts. It's right up there with life-threatening emergencies and truly mutual sex as a way of being fully alive in the present.

Now when I'm asked with condescension why I don't drive, I just say: Beacause adventure starts the moment I leave my door.

I am left without answers. There are only questions I must answer for myself. What is the balance between home and the road? Hearth and horizon? Between what is and what could be?

Often asked why you're not married? Explain: I can't mate in captivity!

How can we learn to know ourselves? By reflection, never, but by our actions. Attempt to do your duty, and you will immediately find what is in you.

Talents are best nurtured in solitude; character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

E?er gönüller gerçekten ayd?nl?ksa, güne? ?????na gerek kalmaz.Ba?kalar?n?n esirgedi?i ?eyi biz kendi kalbimizde buluyoruz..

M? întorc în mine însumi ?i g?sesc o lume!