Quotes About Self-discovery

People who avoid their fears also avoid their power.

Timothy S. Lane

Your spouse, your friends, and your children cannot be the sources of your identity.

Talking about Rosalind in As You Like It] She disguises herself as a boy, drops all the covering inhibitions of "femininity", and really searches for her true self (...) Her disguise gives her the ability to find out about herself, what she really thinks and feels (...). And she can do all this freely, without having anyone in power tell her how women should or should not behave.(...)

I never close a door on any other religion. Most of the time, some part of it makes sense to me. I don't believe everyone has to chant just because I chant. I believe all religion is about touching something inside of yourself.

The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself - something that's in all of us, I think, a little piece of God just waiting to be discovered.

Dice, l'importante è trovare sé stessi, ma il problema è che non sono ancora riuscito a perdermi.

Quando hai un problema fermati, fermati, fermati. Ascoltalo e cerca di trovare la risposta dentro di te. Perchè c'è. Dentro di te c'è qualcosa che ti tiene insieme, che ti aiuta, c'è una vocina. Ascoltala.

Il senso della ricerca sta nel cammino fatto e non nella meta; il fine del viaggiare è il viaggiare stesso e non l'arrivare.

quando hai un problema fermati, fermati, fermati. Ascoltalo e cerca di trovare la risposta dentro di te. Perché c'è. Dentro di te c'è qualcosa che ti tiene insieme, che ti aiuta, c'è una vocina. Ascoltala. Questi la chiamano «Dio», quelli la chiamano qualcos'altro, ma c'è.

Adoro mezclarme con la multitud y convertime en un viajero más: alguien totalmente liberado de su propio papel, de esa imagen que uno tiene de sí mismo y que a veces se convierte en una jaula tan estrecha como la del cuerpo mismo.

Die) Überzeugung, dass es nur einen wahren grossen Meister gibt: jenen, den jeder Mensch in sich trägt. Wenn des Nachts die Stille so vollkommen ist, dass sie zu dröhnen scheint, steht er auf, entzündet eine Kerze und setzt sich ein paar Stunden lang davor. Wozu? "Um zu versuchen, ich selbst zu sein", hat er mir einmal geantwortet. "Um die Melodie zu hören.

The greatest mystery is what lies within

We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.

We are made to persist. that's how we find out who we are.

Tobin Hart calls play "the holy work of children" that helps them "find and define themselves."[2]

You take a shower, your head is up, far away from everything, lost in the clouds, but down in the tub, man, you know who you are.

Boredom is only for people who do not know themselves or the wonders of life.

As a young actor, people were trying to define who I was before I really knew that for myself. But I still remember thinking, 'This is what I love doing, and I hope I'm going to be able to do it forever.'

I used to write at home, but it didn't ever occur to me to be a writer.

I was constantly falling in love, and it never occurred to me that this was wrong or bad.

It never occurred to me to be an actor.

No, I never thought that I would be a writer. I had always been told I could write well, but it never occurred to me that I might make my living that way.

I definitely thought the first book was going to be a one-off. I never thought I'd even write a book, not ever having aspired to be a writer. It's something that never occurred to me - a bit like it never occurred to me to play guitar when I was young. I just thought it was out of my league.