Quotes About Self-discovery

Perhaps in arriving at the foundation of his grief and loneliness, immediate death or immediate life were the only choices within reach. He chose to live. From his rock bottom loneliness emerged a new life and a real self was restored.

But I'm exhausted, finally, by this mob within me that keeps me from being myself. I suppose one feels the need to be alone in order to grow old and die.

Being an old maid is a little bit like drowning. A really delightful sensation once you give up the struggle.

Con los años no es que se profundice lo peor de uno, sino que por fin sale a la luz.

Ya no se trataba de volver de un viaje concluido al lugar de partida, tenía la sensación de que no volvería nunca a ser quien había sido.

Nobody notices, only you've known, you're not sick, not crazy, not angry, not sad-- It's just this, you're injured.

I made myself platinum, but I was born a dirty blonde.

The path of destiny isn't a straight line. It is curved, chaotic, often hidden, and there are endless forks where you make the decisions that lead you to yourself.

In order to be yourself you have to deconstruct the puzzle of who you were to become who you were meant to be.

Being famous is not everything. Being yourself is more than just anything.

There is no boredom or denial of faith in solitude, only privacy of priorities.

Losing in any game is not gambling, but losing yourself is.

When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.

When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than was there before.

When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.

No man can walk away from his own story

We're too much ourselves. Afraid of letting go of what we are, in case we are nothing, and holding on so tight, we lose everything else.

A man who wants to find out who he really is should try watching the woman he loves as she dances the tango with a maestro.

A woman claims as many native lands as she had happy love affairs, Likewise, she is born under every sky where she recovers from the pain of loving.

AÈ™a-i de când lumea, c? cine se introspecteaz? prea mult, acela nu mai e de acord nici cu sine însuÈ™i, în cele din urm?, iar cine nu-i de acord cu sine însuÈ™i, acela nu-i capabil s? ia o hot?râre.

Applicants for wisdom do what I have done: inquire within

?????????? ????????: I searched myself.

I went in search of myself.

I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.