Quotes about Self-discovery

There is no such thing as living alone, for all living is relationship; but to live without direct relationship demands high intelligence, a swifter and greater awareness for self-discovery.

How many of us can honestly say that we have plumbed the depths of our minds and hearts? How many of us regularly listen to ourselves with empathy and understanding—in the supportive way that a trusted friend can?

And I was taught to feel, perhaps too much, The self-sufficing power of solitude.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

The hardest battle you are ever going to have to fight is the battle to be just you.

Seek not good from without; seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

Savor powerlessness, after power, in every phase that matches it precisely; replace every old triumph with the new defeat; strengthen yourself on your weakness; win yourself back when so very lost.

Abbandonarsi ai propri pensieri per un'ora, ogni giorno, senza scopo: basta questo per rimanere qualcosa che somigli a un uomo

When you die and go to heaven our maker is not going to ask, 'why didn't you discover the cure for such and such? why didn't you become the Messiah?' The only question we will be asked in that precious moment is 'why didn't you become you?' Elie Wiesel

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self of the chains that shackle the spirit.

I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

I'm a little bit more proud of Solange. She chose to do it her way. Because in the beginning, we wanted to mold her into this pop star, and that is not who she is. And we were wrong. I was wrong, the record labels were wrong... She wanted to do it her own way, and she did.