Quotes tagged ‘Self-Actualization’

“Captain Flint: You were right. About the toll it took. Playing this... part. Losing Miranda. The... things that losing Miranda drove me to. So, I know what you're feeling at the moment. John Silver: I perceived its effects on you. What I assumed was sorrow, loneliness, and, most of all, terror at th…”

— Marc Berzenski, Josh Rothenberger, John Silver, Luke Arnold, imdb.com

“She said, ‘You cannot hide forever, though you may try. I’ve seen you in the kitchen, in the garden. I’ve seen the things you have sewn – curtains of dawn, twilight blankets and dresses for the sisters like a garden of stars. I have heard the stories you tell. You are the one who transforms, who cre…”

— Francesca Lia Block, amazon.com

“But the woman came to her then. The woman with hair of red like roses, hair of white like snowfall. She was young and old. She was blind and could see everything. She spoke softly, in whispers, but her voice carried across the mountain ranges like sleeping giants, the cities lit like fairies and the…”

— Francesca Lia Block, amazon.com

“As much as you might doubt it, being single as an adult has some seriously noteworthy perks. The world is your oyster and you can do whatever, whenever, with no one else to consider but yourself. You can hop on a plane to anywhere, eat whatever foods you want, and live out the dreams you never thoug…”

— Andrea Wesley, bolde.com

“I am hard on myself. But isn’t it better to be honest about these things before someone else can use them against you? Before someone else can break your heart? Isn’t it better to break it yourself?”

— Stephanie Perkins, amazon.com

“The hardest things for human being to do is to know themselves and to change themselves.”

— Alfred Adler, scholar.google.com

“Who are you when you’re alone? When no one is watching? What’s left then?”

— Rae Mariz, amazon.com

“When you feel the rise of unpleasant emotions, take a moment and make an effort to identify their source. The answers are far more available than you may have previously believed. Accept such feelings as your own in the moment. Do not shove them underneath, ignore them or try to substitute what you…”

— Jane Roberts, amazon.com

“I’m just pain covered with skin.”

— John Steinbeck, amazon.com

“I only feel like myself when I am alone.”

— Peter Cameron, amazon.com

“I understand that nobody understands me, but I can’t be someone I’m not.”

— Audrey Tautou, telegraph.co.uk

“How much of your life, the life you know, is actually your own? We all do things for others, stretching out limbs like thigmotropic plant clinging to the structure of another to both give and receive life-sustaining supplements. But what do we do for ourselves that we do not do for others?What momen…”

— Stephanie (Student), amazon.com

“Love makes you dependent; pain pushes you to the breaking point of self-actualization.”

— Kim, amazon.com

“College is about figuring out who you are, and in order to do that, you need to become a lot of people you aren’t.”

— Ryan O'Connell, amazon.com