The thing about traveling alone, is that you run into your insecurities and fears times ten the normal! You run into all the good things and all the bad things about yourself on a daily basis, and are allowed the opportunity to truly become your own friend. Traveling alone is a learning process; some people travel for leisure, I travel to run into myself!
C. JoyBell C.Tag: learning courage bravery self-discovery self-knowledge travels traveling know-thyself traveler overcoming-fears the-journey-of-self-discovery
The view is endlessly fulfilling. It is like the answer to a lifetime of questions and vague cravings.
Don DeLilloTag: beauty peace nature self-knowledge eureka-moments
A person without her or his own truth ain't a person at all, Ida said. Anybody who tells you different—is a jackass, and no longer deserves to be called human being.
Tom SpanbauerTag: self-knowledge heterodoxy unorthodoxy γνῶθι-σεαυτόν
Je sais qu'on ne peut jamais se connaître, mais seulement se raconter.
Simone de BeauvoirTag: self-awareness self-knowledge
History is for human self-knowledge…the only clue to what man can do is what man has done. The value of history, then, is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.
R.G. CollingwoodTag: history self-knowledge
The greatest tragedy that can befall a man is never to know who he really is.
James Carlos BlakeTag: first-sentence tragedy self-knowledge
We are tempted to believe that certain achievements and possessions will give us enduring satisfaction. We are invited to imagine ourselves scaling the steep cliff face of happiness in order to reach a wide, high plateau on which we will live out the rest of our lives; we are not reminded that soon after gaining the summit, we will be called down again into fresh lowlands of anxiety and desire.
Alain de BottonTag: happiness self-knowledge achievements materialism desire possessions status anxiety
The essence of the charge made against the modern high-status ideal is that it is guilty of effecting a gigantic distortion of priorities, of elevating to the highest level of achievement a process of material accumulation that should instead be only one of many factors determining the direction of our lives under a more truthful, more broadly defined conception of ourselves.
Alain de BottonTag: priorities self-knowledge materialism achievement status
To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation?
Pascal MercierTag: illusions perception honesty self-deception understanding self-awareness character self-knowledge self-image personality
To stand by yourself -- that was also part of dignity. That way, a person could get through a public flaying with dignity. Galileo. Luther. Even somebody who admitted his guilt and resisted the temptation to deny it. Something politicians couldn't do. Honesty, the courage for honesty. With others and yourself.
Pascal MercierTag: honesty courage self-respect self-awareness character self-knowledge self-image personality dignity
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