#cover

There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why. ↗

— William Barclay

#day #days #discover #great #life

But, astonishingly, I'm not broken. I'm not destroyed. Terrified witless, shaking, retching with fear, yes. But no longer insecure. Because during my search for how you died, I somehow found myself to be a different person. ... Living my life. And it wouldn't be my grief for you that toppled the mountain, but love. ↗

— Rosamund Lupton

#self-discovery #life

You don't have to make it big, but you do have to make a big impact. ↗

— Jamie McCall

#legacy #life-path #motivational #recovery #sobriety

I mostly want to remind her of the recipes of healing, and give her my own made-on-the spot remedy for the easing of her pain. I tell her, “Get a pen. Stop crying so you can write this down and start working on it tonight.” My remedy is long. But the last item on the list says: “When you wake up and find yourself living someplace where there is nobody you love and trust, no community, it is time to leave town – to pack up and go (you can even go tonight). And where you need to go is any place where there are arms that can hold you, that will not let you go. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#healing #pen #remedy #self-esteem #self-recovery

A good leader is one who can tell another how to reach his or her potential; a great leader is one who can help another discover this potential for him or herself. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#discover #good #good leader #great #help

A reporter discovers, in the course of many years of interviewing celebrities, that most actors are more attractive behind a spotlight than over a spot of tea. ↗

— Phyllis Battelle

#behind #celebrities #course #discovers #interviewing

If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without. ↗

— Eckhart Tolle

#spiritual

When all the details fit in perfectly, something is probably wrong with the story. ↗

— Charles Baxter

#discovery #fiction #mystery #overdetermination #perfection

the buddhists say there are 149 ways to god. i'm not looking for god, only for myself, and that is far more complicated. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#fate #self-discovery #understanding #destiny

As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions of problems are only possible to an individual, working in solitude. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#analysis #discoveries #greatness #intellect #intellectual-thought