Quotes About Self-discovery

i was tired of playing the child and acting the way many of my friends did - the ones who are afraid that love is impossible without even knowing what love is.

Love is not to be found in someone else, but in ourselves; we simply awaken it.

She had finally allowed her negative feelings to surface, feelings that had been repressed for years in her soul. She had actually FELT them, and they were no longer necessary, they could leave.

I see no contradiction between my search and personal happiness. -BRIDA

So it was in life. In order for the more substantial pieces of wood to catch fire, the kindling must burn first. In order for us to liberate the energy of our strength, our weakness must first have a chance to reveal itself. In order for us to understand the powers we carry within us and the secrets that have already been revealed, it was first necessary to allow the surface expectations, fears, appearances – to be burned away.

When you grow tired of being what you're not, go and have fun and celebrate life... In time, you'll discover that it will give you more than pleasure, it will give you meaning.

The path to wisdom is to be yourself. Stop seeking.

El amor no está en el otro, está dentro de nosotros mismos; nosotros lo despertamos. Pero para que despierte necesitamos del otro. El universo sólo tiene sentido cuando tenemos con quién compartir nuestras emociones.

Some people were born to face life alone, and this is neither good nor bad, it is simply life.

Cuando no tuve nada que perder, lo perdí todo. Cuando dejé de ser quién era, me encontré a mi mismo. Cuando conocí la humillación y aún así seguí caminando, entendí que era libre para escoger mi destino.

Quien ama necesita saber perderse y encontrarse.

What do you want? You can't want to be happy, because that's too easy and too boring. You can't want only to love, because that's impossible. What do you want? You want to justify your life, to live it as intensely as possible. That is at once a trap and a source of ecstasy. Try to be alert to that danger and experience the joy and the adventure of being that woman who is beyond the image reflected in the mirror.

And then there were the others, who were interested only in gold. They never found the secret. They forgot that lead, copper, and iron have their own Personal Legends to fulfill. And anyone who interferes with the Personal Legend of another thing never will discover his own." The

Gradually, the anxiety gives way to contemplation, and I start to listen to my soul. It has been longing to speak to me, but I'm always too busy.

Je voulais comprendre pourquoi j'avais repoussè si longtemps mon plus grand rêves.je voulais surtout me prouver que j'ètais capable de garder cette flamme allumée.

The outer self, that which you believe yourself to be. is nothing more than a limiting place, a stranger to the true self. This is why people have such a hard time listening to what their souls are telling them; they try to control the soul so that it does exactly as they have already decided - their wants. their hopes, their futures.

I love people. I love my family, my children . . . but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.

You are free when you gain back yourself," Madame Wu said. "You can be as free within these walls as you could be in the whole world. And how could you be free if, however far you wander, you still carry inside yourself the constant thought of him? See where you belong in the stream of life. Let it flow through you, cool and strong. Do not dam it with your two hands, lest he break the dam and so escape you. Let him go free, and you will be free.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone, and that's where I renew my springs that never dry up. ~Pearl Buck

If we start with that, with wanting girls to see themselves from the inside out rather than outside in , we will go a long way toward helping them find their true happily-ever-afters.

That is exactly what teenagers of ass sexualities need: ongoing discussion and education that addresses pleasure, mutuality, safety, love, intimacy, and self-discovery. They need to understand the potential to either be the perpetrator or the victim of intimate partner violence and sexual assault. They need to have agency over their bodies. And for all of them, adult denial puts them at risk of physical and emotional trauma.

Some chains are the result of things done to us. Some chains are the result of what we needed that we did not have. Although many are due to our own choices, there is hope. - Peggy Park

But as we let go of our repetitive stories and fixed ideas about ourselves--particularly deep-seated feelings of I'm not okay--the armor starts to fall apart, and we open into the spaciousness of our true nature, into who we really are beyond the transitory thoughts and emotions. We see that our armor is made up of nothing more than habits and fears, and we begin to feel that we can let those go.