Cecelia Ahern Quotes

The greatest blessing is that, within all of this, I've still been challenged every day to question and show who I am.

The secret of the world is this: the world is entirely circular and you will go round and round endlessly, never finding what you want, unless you have found what you really want inside yourself. When you follow a star you know you will never reach that star; rather it will guide you to where you want to go. Its a reference point, not an end in itself, even though you seem to be following it. So it is with the world. It will only ever lead you back to yourself. The end of all your exploring will be to cease from exploration and know the place for the first time.

I looked into that empty bottle and I saw myself.

I think it's good to explore it. I don't feel bad about that... I mean, I think everyone has a sense of - has a dark side, has a - carries some sort of pain with them. And I find it fun to crack it open and go there.

I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here.

The journey toward self-discovery is life's greatest adventure.

You had to come back to learn how to lose yourself, to be pilot and stray-witch, Hansel and Gretel in one.

We come to know who we really are in life during the dark and difficult and desolate days of our journey.

Sometimes you have to explore the darkness to get to the light and get back to who you are.

Oshima's silent for a time as he gazes at the forest, eyes narrowed. Birds are flitting from one branch to the next. His hands are clasped behind his head. "I know how you feel," he finally says. "But this is something you have to work out on your own. Nobody can help you. That's what love's all about, Kafka. You're the one having those wonderful feelings, but you have to go it alone as you wander through the dark. Your mind and body have to bear it all. All by yourself.

I have survived. I am here. Confused, screwed up, but here. So, how can I find my way? Is there a chain saw of the soul, an ax I can take to my memories or fears?

Your purpose is about discovering and nurturing who you truly are, to know and love yourself at the deepest level and to guide yourself back home when you lose your way. That's it. Everything else is your burning passion, your inspired mission, your job, your love-fueled hobby, etc. Those things are powerful and essential, but they're not your purpose. Your purpose is much bigger than that.

That wonderful and terribly frightening journey of self-discovery. That process of growth, of being an independent person, of learning who you are and what you want from life, is the real secret of life, happiness and beauty.

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that's not easy.

In the last couple of years I've been facing down a lot of the demons of the past and trying to find out, who I am, It's something I think I'll be doing for the rest of my life.

My demons, inner strengths and physical battles have guided me through life.

I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it.

Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be.

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

Life is not linear; you have ups and downs. It's how you deal with the troughs that defines you.

It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.

For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find.

One thing I've come to learn about myself is that I have to keep going.

Tennis was always sort of a - a learning. It was a vehicle for me to discover a lot about myself. And the things that I sort of discovered at times I not only didn't want to see it for myself but I certainly didn't want millions of people to see it.

You're always searching for the thing to heal you, and I thought therapy would give me that. But it didn't - it just helps you recognize your demons.