Quotes About Self-discovery

I don't think people understand the model-minority stereotype is negative. You are boxed in. You have to untangle that to find your own path.

If we did all the things we were capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

So may I live no junctive law fulfilling, And my heart's table bear no woman's name.

Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

The false self is deeply entrenched. You can change your name and address, religion, country, and clothes. But as long as you don't ask it to change, the false self simply adjusts to the new environment. For example, instead of drinking your friends under the table as a significant sign of self-worth and esteem, if you enter a monastery, as I did, fasting the other monks under the table could become your new path to glory.

If truth is what you seek, then the examined life will only take you on a long ride to the limits of solitude and leave you by the side of the road with your truth and nothing else.

I may be the wrong person for my life.

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

It is the body that possesses itself: Owning something means to be able to control it, and selfhood is intimately related to the very moment in which the body discovers that it can control itself—as a whole. It is exactly what happens when you wake up in the morning, when you "come to yourself.

Some people say they haven't yet found themselves. But the self is not something one finds; it is something one creates.

You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

I don't know yet what I am capable of doing, but, by God, I have genius -- I know it too well to blush behind it.

Even in times of the most entrenched rationalism, there lives in every man a little Alexander who never managed to conquer his Eudaimon Arabia.

There is no need for me to curse you -the murderer survives the victim only to learn that it was himself that he longed to be rid of. Hatred is self-hatred.

There is no adventure in life equal to that of being, and asserting, one's self.

Puoi dirti vivo solo nei momenti in cui il tuo cuore vede i tesori che possiedi.

If I could remove fear from my life, uproot it, who would I be? she wonders. What would it feel like to live for today and let the future remain in the future? How much lighter her burdens would seem.

you have to learn to look inside yourself. It's a new way of looking, to see the true you. The fire took away a lot, but it also left a lot behind. Do you understand?

Strength, beti. Be strong. Bibi turns tearfully toward her. "How, mausi?" she asks. "How? He was my rock. How do I learn to see the world through my own eyes?" Bhima falls silent, feeling acutely her own inadequacy. By breathing one breath at a time, she wants to say. By waking up one morning after another. By putting one foot ahead of the next, until your feet recall how to walk again.

First time since I come to Am'rica, I not with husband or Rekha or in restaurant or store or car or apartment. I's all alone and I loves it. First time I feel everything not borrow. What I mean by that? When I with the husband, I seeing everything through his eyes - moon, sun, sky, tree, parking lot, store, everything. If he feeling sun too hot, I feeling upset. If he cursing the cold, I angry with snow. My brains not thinking my own thoughts.