Cecelia Ahern Quotes

We can run away from where we are, but not from what we are.

What you can't run away from, you have to face

The real rub is finding that authentic self and it's not something that's going to come to you overnight.

I guess I came to know this about myself: for better or worse, I don't give up.

You can spend time self-identifying and figuring out what you are on that, but at some point, you just want to be who you are and not walk around telling people.

Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems.

People begin running for any number of motives, but we stick to it for one basic reason-to find out who we really are.

Find your true self. The old question, asked in many ages, "Who am I?" Once you figure out who am I, and you know who am I, then you have that knowledge of self.

If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask... with nothing beneath it?

The real religion is not imitation of anybody else, it is a search to find out your own authentic self, who you are.

You spend so much time wondering who you are, don't you think? You flounder about, searching for your identity, when most of the time it is plain as the nose on your face. You struggle with questions of purpose and need, and forget that the answers are found mostly inside yourselves.

What we seek is what we are.

I've tried to become someone else for a while, only to discover that he, too, was me.

The self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself.

No matter where I run, I meet myself there.

Searching nature I taste self but at one tankard, that of my own being.

One can run away from anything but oneself.

Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am - and what I need - is something I have to find out myself.

The only person who can solve the labyrinth of yourself is You.

Very early you come to the realization that nothing will ever take you away from yourself.

Men of Oregon, I invite you to become students of your events. Running, one might say, is basically an absurd past-time upon which to be exhausting ourselves. But if you can find meaning, in the kind of running you have to do to stay on this team, chances are you will be able to find meaning in another absurd past-time: life.

You can run for cover, you can run for help. You can run to your lover, but you can't ever run from yourself.

Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self: in which case, it is best that the garment be loose, a little like the robes of the desert, through which one's nakedness can always be felt, and, sometimes, discerned. This trust in one's nakedness is all that gives one the power to change one's robes.

The more I run, the more I want to run, and the more I live a life conditioned and influenced and fashioned by my running. And the more I run, the more certain I am that I am heading for my real goal: to become the person I am.

Self-recognition is necessary to know one's road, but, knowing the road, the price of the mistakes and perils is worth paying. The following of that road will be all the discipline one needs. Discipline does not mean being molded by outside forces, but sticking to one's road against the forces that would deflect or bury the soul. People speak of finding one