Language is something you inherit, it's never just you doing the talking, which helps when you're pretending.
Cees NooteboomTag: words self-deception fantasy language self-knowledge fantastical-thinking night-thoughts
Some girls have to go to college to discover what they are good at; some are born doing what they must without even truly knowing why. I felt a hole in my heart shaped like a dark door I needed to guard.
Catherynne M. ValenteTag: self-discovery self-knowledge ability
Spend your leisure time in cultivating an ear attentive to discourse, for in this way you will find that you learn with ease what others have found out with difficulty.
IsocratesTag: wisdom learning self-knowledge listening
Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his conscious reflection, his progressive steps, mysterious even to himself, should enter so swiftly into the work that he is unable to recognize them in the moment of transition.
Rainer Maria RilkeTag: art perception creativity creation self-knowledge aesthetics viewing
Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.
Jonathan FranzenTag: reading integrity isolation growth self-knowledge social-change
Know yourself fearlessly (even quietly) for all the things you are.
AberjhaniTag: fear inspiration self-acceptance courage self-knowledge encouragement meditation personality philosophy-of-life positive-motivation famous-quotes wisdom-quote wisdom-inspirational personal-identity famous-poets knowledge-of-self wisdom-in-youth
One is either an artist or one is not. It is not something one becomes. It is something that one is from birth. We do not study to be artists. We study to become more proficient. To understand more.
Edward SwiftTag: art identity creativity self-knowledge artistry being-yourself
G. I. Gurdieff, "Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson"
So-and-so-and-so-must-be; do-not-do-what-must-not-be.
Mullah's favorite saying. p. 598
Tag: humor inspirational self self-knowledge observation outlook being attitude-towards-life
Throughout human history beauty has been seen as a gift from God, but Mom had another notion; she thought that beauty could be earned through self-knowledge. It may be a revolutionary idea, but it has offered me great comfort.
Ruth ReichlTag: beauty self-knowledge
Everything is music for the born musician.
Romain RollandTag: music identity self-knowledge musicians finding-yourself
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