Quotes About Self-discovery

I think it's because it shows that people--or hobbits, as the case may be--can find strength they didn't know they had.

Reading is the best way I know to learn how to examine your life. By comparing what you've done to what others have done, and your thoughts and theories and feelings to those of others, you learn about yourself and the world around you. Perhaps that is why reading is one of the few things you do alone that can make you feel less alone. It is a solitary activity that connects you to others.

Christopher Isherwood's Christopher and His Kind,

it felt like I was headed right back to where I started—that once again I could lose everything I had, and that maybe I didn't deserve any of it. Maybe I had done something wrong.

The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school.

When I got into junior high school, that's when my mom let me dress how I wanted to dress. Up to that point I wore suits to school all the time.

Geen mens weet waartoe hij in staat is, voor hij alles geprobeerd heeft.

Most people think adopted kids like me have this need to connect with our biological roots so we can discover who we really are. They think being "takeout" is totally different than being "homemade." But we're not different at all.

It is, after all, hard to know what to choose when you aren't really sure what you want.

Thus, Epictetus advises us to form "a certain character and pattern" for ourselves when we are alone. Then, when we associate with other people, we should remain true to who we are.

Three steps to becoming the happy person you were meant to be are: Locate your misbeliefs. (Jerry realized that he was telling himself lies.) Remove them. (He argued against them. "I am not lonely!") Replace misbeliefs with the truth. ("It's nonsense to say I'm unlovable and useless. I'm loved with an everlasting love by the God of the universe. In Him, I have countless talents and uses and I am infinitely valuable to Him.")

We keep a journal to entrap that collection of selves that forms us, the individual human being.

The transition's of life's second half offer a special kind of opportunity to break with the social conditioning and do something really new and different.

Os verdadeiros começos começam dentro de nós, mesmo que suscitados por oportunidades externas.

Too much of me was lost in the vision of what somebody else wanted me to be.

What you say is true,' said Fr. Dioscuros with a smile. 'You can pray anywhere. After all, God is everywhere, so you can find him everywhere.' He gestured to the darkening sand dunes outside: 'But in the desert, in the pure clean atmosphere, in the silence – there you can find yourself . And unless you begin to know yourself, how can you even begin to search for God?

It comes down to this: Who am I? Am I my no-chemicals-added self, no matter how unhappy I may be? Or Should I swallow this pill, achieve tranquility and risk obliterating a certain essential part of me?

Exactly, what form this alteration has taken. I will never know. I don't feel sedated, jittery or drugged. I simply feel normal-as if I had been driving a car all these years with the parking brake on, and now it is off. I feel as if the real me has returned, perhaps all the way from childhood, where she lived before The Beast arrived.

I strongly believe that we are not put on this Earth just to accumulate victories and trophies and avoid failures; but rather to be whittled and sandpapered down until what's left is who we truly are

He seemed to be drawing inward toward some point at which he would be reduced to the fundamental essence of himself.

I know of nothing more difficult than knowing who you are, and having the courage to share the reasons for the catastrophe of your character with the world.

El Buda examinó el fenómeno del ser humano examinando su propia naturaleza. Dejando a un lado toda idea preconcebida, exploró la realidad interior y descubrió que cada ser es un compuesto de cinco procesos, cuatro de ellos mentales y uno físico.

We would rather explore the far side of the moon or the bottom of the ocean than the hidden depths within ourselves.

In Avatar Jake embarks on a journey of self-discovery and self-realization, advancing along a path that can map out with the aid of these seven main energy center chakras.