Quotes About Self-discovery

Yes, evening will find itself in me, without me.

He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible. Maeterlinck says: If Socrates leave his house today he will find the sage seated on his doorstep. If Judas go forth tonight it is to Judas his steps will tend. Every life is many days, days after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.

Her hayat birçok günden oluÅŸur, gün günü izler. Biz kendi hayat?m?z?n içinden yürüyüp geçeriz, yolda kar??m?za h?rs?zlar, hayaletler, devler, yaÅŸl?lar, gençler, zevceler, dullar, a??k biraderler ç?kar. Ama illa ki kendimizle kar??la??r?z her seferinde.

It's strange how people bloom, even in poisonous soil, once they allow themselves to become what they've always been.

spent the rest of the afternoon in my room. A faucet was ticking in the bathroom as loudly as a mechanical clock, with the same sense of urgency and waste. I tried to tighten the

His father placed his elbows on the table and leaned toward him. "We need to know if you are simply ordinary or larger than life." To the best of his ability, he mulled over the notion of being larger than life. "Did you have to go there when you were young?" His father nodded. "Were you afraid?" His father sat back into his tall, brocaded armchair, as if in recall. "In the beginning I was. Until I learned to overcome fear.

They find "sources of strength in the self to develop the self.

You have to choose between what the world expects of you and what you want for yourself," my sister Jack told me several times. "Put yourself in God's hands and you can't go wrong.

A body can't prosper if a person don't know who they are. That makes you poor as a pea, not knowing who you are inside. That's worse than being anything in the world on the outside.

A body can't prosper if a person don't know who they are. That makes you poor as a pea, not knowing who you are inside. That's worse than being anything in the world on the outside.

It took years before I began to accept the fact that the nebulous "white man's world" wasn't as free as it looked; that class, luck, religion all factored in as well; that many white individuals' problems surpassed my own, often by a lot; that all Jews are not like my grandfather and that part of me is Jewish too. Yet the color boundary in my mind was and still is the greatest hurdle. In order to clear it, my solution was to stay away from it and fly solo.

Am I black or white?" "You're a human being," she snapped. "Educate yourself or you'll be a nobody!" "Will I be a black nobody or just a nobody?" "If you're a nobody," she said dryly, "it doesn't matter what color you are.

I'd been told that he had been created-literally created-just for me,as my perfect other half. Let me tell you-if Dylan was my perfect other half, then i needed to give my first half a seriouis look-see.

I knew my transformation was complete when Dr.Keyes asked, How are you feeling today, Tandy? and I responded I'm not

Don't depend on others to give you strength....Find it within yourself

seize the moment, however worried you may be about what's coming next. It's your brain, it's your life, it's your attitude…. Go out there and fill up with sights, sounds, and ideas that are bigger than yourself.

My dear, there is no universal secret. There's only the secret each writer discovers for herself. The path forward

Mirror, mirror on the wall, I am my mother after all.

By taking control of my sexuality, I felt like I'd finally taken control of my life.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself

Yours, neither.

Most people will live their entire lives believing they know exactly who they are and what they're capable of. But that's only because most people will never have to find out for real.

yourself in one of these cells.

it wasn't that the forty-eight-year-old doctor didn't like people; he simply liked being alone better.