Quotes About Self-discovery

Most guys are at fight club because of something they're too scared to fight. After a few fights, you're afraid a lot less.

Encontré la libertad. Perder toda esperanza era la libertad

Me has conocido en un momento extraño de mi vida

Sticking feathers up your butt," Tyler says, does not make you a chicken.

When you understand that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble it up and throw your past in the trashcan then we'll figure out who you're going to be.

The truth is there's always been someone to tell me what to do. The church. The people who I work for. The caseworker. And I can't stand the idea of being alone. I can't bear the thought of being free. Survivor

Plainly and simply put, Purgatory is where you unwrite the book of your life story.

I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure.

I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, someplace to be that's not on the map. A real adventure. Not just a story that goes and then, and then, and then, and then until you die.

I just didn't want to be fixed. Whatever my real problems might be, I didn't want them cured. None of the little secrets inside me wanted to be found and explained away. By myths. By my childhood. By chemistry. My fear was, what would be left?

If you don't know what you want,' the doorman said, 'you end up with a lot you don't.

Don't pretend for a moment that writing as a different person is evading reality. If anything it allows you a greater freedom to explore parts of yourself you wouldn't dare consciously examine.

You are your own favorite hobby. You're an expert on you.

What I need to learn to do for myself. To write my own story.

Maybe we didn't need a father to complete ourselves.

Hiçbir zaman tamamlanmam?? olay?m, ne olur. Hiçbir zaman halimden memnun olmayay?m. Hiçbir zaman kusursuz olmayay?m. Kurtar beni, Tyler, kusursuz ve tamamlanm?? olmaktan kurtar.

No hagas lo que quieres. Haz lo que no quieres. Haz lo que te han enseñado a no querer. Es lo contrario de perseguir la felicidad. Haz las cosas que te dan más miedo.

sticking feathers up your butt,Tyler says,does not make you a chicken

Power meant Jamal not having to present himself as an imperfect copy of someone he'd never wanted to be in the first place.

Spent the years wandering, mostly. Faffing off. Getting high. Sucking dick. Seeing the country. As one does.

I went through my life thinking that everyone else was better than I was and that I was always trailing behind, trying to be like them. But now I know that I'm just me and they're gonna have to deal with that.

I'd spent so many years doing things I didn't really want to do for people I didn't really like.

But if you truly want to reinvent your life, you're going to have to learn to say yes. Even if it feels selfish. Or scary.

The apartment was entirely, was only, for her; a wall of books, both read and unread, all of them dear to her not only in themselves, their tender spines, but in the moments or periods they evoked. She had kept some books...which suggested to her that she was, or might be, a person of seriousness, a thinker in some seeping, ubiquitous way; and she had kept, too, a handful of children's books...that conjured for her an earlier, passionately earnest self.