Quotes About Self-discovery

I have one and only one wish: to withdraw from the world, to live far away in the countryside in a beautiful house, and to study and work there, all alone. I hope to realize that dream next yeat, when I will be thirty years old and will say goodbye to the world forever.

Till now, I told myself, You have only seen the shadow and been well content with it; now, I am going to lead you into the substance.

I have to constantly re-identify myself to myself, reactivate my own standards, my own convictions about what I'm doing and why.

Con una claridad que lo entumeció más que el vino, supo que era todos los hombres y que todos los hombres eran él y que cada vez que combatía al maldito Caballero Negro estaba combatiendo por su propia supervivencia, sencillamente. Solo y borracho, se percató de ello por primera vez.

The inner revolution will not be televised or sold on the Internet. It must take place within one's own mind and heart.

Real education is about getting people involved in thinking for themselves- and that's a tricky business to know how to do well, but clearly it requires that whatever it is you're looking at has to somehow catch people's interest and make them want to think, and make them want to pursue and explore.

If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with.

The divorce has lasted way longer than the marriage, but finally it's over. Enough about that.The point is that for a long time, the fact that I was divorced was the most important thing about me.And now it's not.

Otra cosa buena del divorcio es que saca a la luz algo que con el matrimonio permanece oculto, y es que estás sola. No hay una lucha de poder para ver quién de los dos se levanta a medianoche; te levantas tú.

The point is that for a long time, the fact that I was divorced was the most important thing about me. And now it's not. Now the most important thing about me is that I'm old.

Niall: We're tossed by the winds of fate. Once we end where they blow us, we make of ourselves that we will.

She's in love, and that makes her strong. She'll need to be. What makes you strong, Mia? Purpose. Love never worked for me.

He pulled himself out of hard times, dealt with the scars from it, pushed himself to make a mark. A little bit of the wild side there, always. I told myself, oh no, I won't get tangled up with this one. And I said it again, even when I was tangled up.

theres only a little bit of that boy i got stuck with all those years ago left in there nick and its the best part

Maybe this wasn't the road she'd expected to take, all those years ago when she was a young girl who imagined having pretty things and a quiet life that she would earn by using her brain. But it was the road she'd taken, and she was making it the right road.

From this day forward, she thought, this was home. One she'd make herself, for herself. This was her life, one she'd live as she wanted. If that wasn't magick, what was?

There's a wilderness here. She knew it lived inside her.

when she should have known it was something she had to find for herself.

Can't do much about it as person's the root of personal. We can't stop being people, or it wins.

I believe a great many people are born writer or artist, and die without ever realizing it. Books go unwritten, paintings unpainted. The fortunate ones are those who discover what they were meant to do. I might have been an excellent soccer player. I might have been an excellent writer. If I'd tried to do both, I'd have been no more than mediocre. I chose not to be mediocre.

You don't know me. If I haven't figured myself out yet, you can't know me.

That's a kind of magic, isn't it? Every bit as much as faeries and spells and winged horses. I'm accepted here, not for what I do, or where I come from, or where I went to school. I'm accepted for who I am. For who, more importantly, I'm finally letting myself become.

Betray yourself, and you betray all they've given you. Love opens doors. It doesn't close them. When you go through it and find yourself, they'll still be there.

it hasn't changed you. It's revealed you. - Sally