find yourself Quotes

“I made it the mantra of those days; when I paused before yet another series of switchbacks or skidded down knee-jarring slopes, when patches of flesh peeled off my feet along with my socks, when I lay alone and lonely in my tent at night I asked, often out loud: Who is tougher than me? The answer was always the same, and even when I knew absolutely there was no way on this earth that it was true, I said it anyway: No one.”

“Forget the self and you will fear nothing, in whatever level or awareness you find yourself to be.”

“There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.”

“You need to hear the truth about yourself as frequently as possible, because your mind is so preoccupied with false self-images.”

“From this point on, she whispered, we will either find or lose our souls.”

“You will learn a lot about yourself if you stretch in the direction of goodness, of bigness, of kindness, of forgiveness, of emotional bravery. Be a warrior for love.”

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”

“How do you let go of attachment to things? Don’t even try. It’s impossible. Attachment to things drops away by itself when you no longer seek to find yourself in them.”

“Sometimes when you lose your way, you find YOURSELF.”

“And, she thought uncomfortably, what would happen if people did not recognize you? Would you know who you were yourself? If tomorrow they started to call her Vanessa or Janet or Elizabeth, would she know how to be, how to feel like, Charlotte? Were you some particular person only because people recognized you as that?”

″‘And what you going to do, Richard? What you want to be?’ And his face clouded. ‘I don’t know. I got to find out. Looks like I can’t get my mind straight nohow.‘”