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Glossary entry

Italian term or phrase:

consolidarsi in sé

English translation:

Find ones strength

Added to glossary by EirTranslations
Mar 16, 2012 09:55
12 yrs ago
Italian term

consolidarsi in sé

Italian to English Other Poetry & Literature
Please see below thanks, US English...I tried to find this whole quote in English, in case it had been translated but have been unable to find it, so I'm doing my own translation, however I'm not sure what is meant by the term above. Help appreciated thanks

Per gli uomini non esiste nessunissimo dovere, tranne uno: cercare se stessi, consolidarsi in sé, procedere a tentativi per la propria via ovunque essa conduca.
...Molte volte avevo fantasticato sul mio futuro, poeta o profeta o pittore o qualcosa di simile.
Niente di tutto ciò.
...Tutto ciò è secondario.
La vera vocazione di ognuno è una sola, quella di conoscere se stessi.
(Hermann Hesse)
Proposed translations (English)
4 Find ones strength
4 come into one's own
4 to be sure of yourself

Discussion

Michael Korovkin Mar 16, 2012:
I gave you a cliché commonly used for the process inicated, in a more desctiptive fashion, by the expression "finding the way to himself": one who finds the way to himself, willy-nilly comes into his own, doesn't he?
EirTranslations (asker) Mar 16, 2012:
Thanks for that... I really really appreciate it
SJLD Mar 16, 2012:
from Demian "Each man had only one genuine vocation—to find the way to himself.... His task was to discover his own destiny—not an arbitrary one—and live it out wholly and resolutely within himself. Everything else was only a would-be existence, an attempt at evasion, a flight back to the ideals of the masses, conformity and fear of one’s own inwardness"

Proposed translations

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Find ones strength

This is one idea, based on the "strengthening" aspect of the verb. It is quite a common expression.

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Note added at 1 day5 hrs (2012-03-17 15:51:44 GMT)
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"To go from strength to a strength" is another possibility, but may take some text manipulation to fit it in and may not entirely represent "consolidarsi", but is a similar idea.
Example sentence:

"FIND THE STRENGTH WITHIN YOURSELF .....I wish you success AS YOU FIND THAT STRENGTH to overcome any challenge you face."

"How do you FIND YOUR inner STRENGTH? With a little help from Martha Beck! It's time for a metamorphosis."

Reference:

http://bobchoat.com/2011/04/26/find-the-strength-within-yourself/

http://www.oprah.com/spirit/Find-Your-Strength

Peer comment(s):
neutral SJLD : and the apostrophe?
15 hrs
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "thx"
4 mins

come into one's own

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2 hrs

to be sure of yourself

This is how I see it.

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Note added at 2 hrs (2012-03-16 12:49:23 GMT)
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"to seek yourself, to be sure of yourself"
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