Quotes About Self-discovery

You suppose you are the trouble But you are the cure You suppose that you are the lock on the door But you are the key that opens it Rumi

There was something pathetic about the rejected wife bravely pulling herself together, joining a tennis club, doing a photography course, cutting her hair, venturing timidly back out onto the single scene.

she tried to work out who she really was without people who loved her to reflect back her personality.

A well-managed breakdown can turn out to be a good thing," he told Yao. "Try to see it as an opportunity. An opportunity to grow and learn about yourself.

Try not to saddle yourself with too distinct a personality too early in life. It might not suit you later on.

single spotlight revealed Alice's

You suppose you are the trouble But you are the cure You suppose that you are the lock on the door But you are the key that opens it Rumi Just when I discovered the meaning of life, they changed it. George Carlin

Maybe, thought Alice fearfully, the other Alice who has been living my life for the last ten years isn't very nice.

staring at herself in speckled mirrors with a dizzy feeling of dissociation as she tried to work out who she really was without people who loved her to reflect back her personality.

had begun to occur to her that she wasn't trapped because of Logan; she'd been trapped in her own Indira self, like everyone was trapped in their own selves.

While you look at the stars tonight I want you to reflect on two koans. The first one is this: Out of nowhere the mind comes forth." Masha paused. "And the second: Show me your original face, the one you had before your parents were born.

Masha smiled. "Good. At first it will feel strange. You will have to fake it. But then you will remember. You will think, 'Oh, that's right, this is how I talk, this is how I walk. This is me, Carmel.'" She knocked her closed fist against her heart. "This is who I am.

Show me your original face, the one you had before your parents were born.

He made her more confident, funnier, smarter. He brought out all the things that were there already and let her be fully herself, so she seemed to shine with this inner light.

Try not to saddle yourself with too distinct a personality too early in life. It might not suit you later on. Say

How was she going to cope for ten days without instant answers to idle questions?

She would have happily never seen Troy Delaney ever again, or even returned to Australia. The wounds had healed nicely, no visible scars, and she'd found a new life, a new love, so she could once again watch romantic comedies without scoffing.

There's a difference between heartbroken and damaged," said Ed. "You were sad and hurt. Maybe your heart was broken, but you weren't broken.

You suppose you are the trouble But you are the cure You suppose that you are the lock on the door But you are the key that opens it

long time for her to reinstall her personality after he'd systematically taken it apart, making her doubt her every thought.

In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice. We're each of us our own chiaroscuro, our own bit of illusion fighting to emerge into something solid, something real. We've got to forgive ourselves that. I must remember to forgive myself. Because there is a lot of grey to work with. No one can live in the light all the time.

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

Everyone who has ever written will have discovered that writing always awakens something which, though it lay within us, we failed clearly to recognize before.

Crazy muthaf-cka. I am one, but the crazy thing is, I began one.