Quotes About Self-discovery

A veces, nuestro futuro viene impuesto por quienes somos, y no por lo que queremos.

a life she had never imagined could be hers. A life without the rigid limitations others had always set for her. They

Instead, it had more to do with the sense that somehow she'd lost sight of the person she'd once meant to be, and she wasn't sure she'd ever have the opportunity to find that person again.

I didn't want to fall in love with anyone. I wasn't ready for that. I've been through that once, and afterwards I was a mess.

Mi limito a dire alle persone quello che già sanno, ma hanno paura di ammettere con sé stesse.

Aprendí algo acerca de mí misma: que después de una experiencia tan desagradable, podía sobrevivir y seguir adelante...

Why is marriage so hard?" "Who knows? I think it's probably because people get married without knowing who they really are in the first place. Or how they're crazy.

You never answered my question, about what you want to do with your life. Maybe my dreams aren't that complicated. Maybe I think that a job is just a job. What does that mean? Maybe I don't want to be defined by what I do. Maybe I'd like to be defined by what I am.

I wondered just how much of her I'd invented. Had I only mastered some skill for awing myself? Or would this creature, Camilla, like a settler's incessant New World, keep increasing my capacity not only to marvel but to marvel at myself in the face of her?

In other words, it's one of those books you thrust on your partner with an incredulous cry of This is me!

Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are suppose to go.

They were expressions of who he was and what he'd become, and he couldn't do anything about any of it, apart from retrace his steps back and back and back, until he was fifteen or ten or three years old, and start again.

He was a story at least, even if he never became anything else.

Ella pasó por una especie de Kramer contra Kramer en su día. Ya sabes, una de esas chaladuras presuntuosas en las que uno trata de averiguar quién demonios es. - ¿Y al final averiguó quién era? - No, no lo creo. Dudo mucho que alguien llegue a saber quién es de verdad, ¿no te parece?

I've been thinking with my guts since I was fourteen years old, and frankly speaking, between you and me, I have come to the conclusion that my guts have shit for brains. I

He didn't want to put up with things as they were, but the other choice meant that he'd have to be his own mother, and how could you be your own mother when you were only twelve?

A name, she thinks, is what makes a person who they are. A name is how they know themself.

Find out who you are, and do it on purpose.

The flowers need watering the silver needs a shine. Daughter is a magnet drawn back to where she was last safe. She touches the tablecloth like a talisman. Tell me who I was. Tell me what I've become.

I've reached the age where bruises are formed from failures within rather than accidents without.

I opened my mouth, but nothing came out. It took seven languages to make me; it would be nice if I could have spoken just one.

I like to think the world wasn't ready for me, but maybe the truth is that I wasn't ready for the world. I've always arrived too late for my life.

How was it possible to wake up every day and be recognizable to another when so often one was barely recognizable to oneself?

In the beginning it was always the same. But. I kept trying. Then one day I accidentally moved as the shutter clicked. A shadow appeared. The next time I saw the outline of my face, and a few weeks later my face itself. It was the opposite of disappearing.