The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself. — Myles Munroe
One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is. — Norman Vincent Peale
Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people's opinions who don't know themselves. — Osho
Experience nature, and in doing so learn about yourself. — Japanese Proverbs
To know oneself, one should assert oneself. — Albert Camus
To find yourself, you must first lose yourself — Jared Leto
Study yourself. Find your strong points and make them stronger as well as your weak ones and strengthen them. Study yourself carefully and you will see yourself as you really are. — William Walker Atkinson
Experience the beauties of nature, and in doing so learn about yourself. — Japanese Proverbs
You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it. — Barbra Streisand
People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates. — Thomas Szasz
It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else. — Mariska Hargitay
It's not about finding a home so much as finding yourself — Jason Behr
Committing yourself is a way of finding out who you are. A man finds his identity by identifying. — Robert E. Terwilliger
Short Discovered Quotes
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. — Galileo Galilei
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately. — Henry David Thoreau
To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth. — Pearl S. Buck
We had discovered an accursed country. We had found the Home of the Blizzard. — Douglas Mawson
Life’s a journey. It’s a journey about discovering limits. — Larry Ellison
Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The way you discover your gifts is really by serving not by searching. — Loren Cunningham
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. — Lewis B. Smedes
In the year 1657 I discovered very small living creatures in rain water. — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Steampunk is what happens when goths discover brown — Cherie Priest
The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive. — Bill Watterson
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind. — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Discovering True Self Quotes
We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something. — Carl Jung
One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up. — Friedrich Nietzsche
In the midst of change we often discover wings we never knew we had.
Like an old gold-panning prospector, you must resign yourself to digging up a lot of sand from which you will later patiently wash out a few minute particles of gold ore. — Dorothy Bryant
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. — Oscar Wilde
There is no satisfaction that can compare with looking back across the years and finding you've grown in self-control, judgment, generosity, and unselfishness. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew.
Wanting to reform the world without discovering one's true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes. — Ramana Maharshi
Each of us is here to discover our true selves; that essentially we are spiritual beings who have taken manifestation in physical form; that we're not human beings that have occasional spiritual experiences, that we're spiritual beings that have occasional human experiences — Deepak Chopra
Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves. — Carol Lynn Pearson
GIFTS is an acronym for Gratitude, Intention, Forgiveness, Triumphs, and Self-love. I believe that those are the principles we need to explore in order to discover our true gifts. — Kim Coles
Self Describing Quotes
Life is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it, just live it. — C. S. Lewis
THING TO TRY: If you are asked to describe a suspect to a police sketch artist, describe in precise detail, the features of the police sketch artist. This is one of the rare instances where two people can do one self-portrait. — Demetri Martin
By definition, memoir demands a certain degree of introspection and self-disclosure: In order to fully engage a reader, the narrator has to make herself known, has to allow her own self-awareness to inform the events she describes. — Caroline Knapp
When you look for the good in others, you discover the best in yourself.
The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency. — Quentin Crisp
As Steven Pressfield, author of The War of Art describes: ‘Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do.’ — Pat Flynn
You can never represent yourself totally .... to seek self -knowledge is to embark on a journey which ... will always be incomplete, cannot be charted on a map, will never halt, cannot be described. — Douglas Hofstadter
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw of the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in you sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
It's self-centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity. — John Templeton
The man of Self-realization knows a bliss that cannot be compared to anything in this world. His joy is independent of any object or sensory experience. It is an incomparable happiness that cannot be described in words. Such joy is known as sattvik-ananda. — Paramahansa Yogananda
I think that's all a form of wanting to let go, of wanting to get out... It's not something easily described or understood. — Marilyn Manson
By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection. — Frank Moore Colby
Self Check Quotes
Integrity is the value we set on ourselves. It is a fulfillment of the duty we owe ourselves. An honorable man or woman will personally commit to live up to certain self-imposed expectations. They need no outside check or control. They are honorable in their inner core. — James E. Faust
Melting our attachment to self is the most powerful medication for bringing mental and emotional imbalances in check. — Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
I don't like to be my own audience, I find that being my own audience, being in the audience, makes me self-conscious, basically. So I tune in sometimes, with the sound off, to check it out and I back up to it. In the future I will look at it when some time has passed. — Madeline Kahn
Your why must be greater than your fear, only then you will step outside your comfort zone.
Like most of the movies I have participated in before, it's not a far departure from my actual self. TJ is a Special Forces, hand-to-hand combat expert. He's got a big heart. He has a sense of duty that never ends, whether he is active duty or as you find him in Check Point, retired. — Bill Goldberg
Constitutions are checks upon the hasty action of the majority. They are the self-imposed restraints of a whole people upon a majority of them to secure sober action and a respect for the rights of the minority. — William Howard Taft
For me, makeup is about being your best self. If I wake up in a foul mood and have to deal with temper tantrums and an exploding diaper--I know taking 10 minutes to get my game face on will reset my stress levels. It's a chance to check in and remind myself--you got this. — Jessica Alba
We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
We call ourselves a "capacity building" organization; self-motivated and self-initiated capacity building. For example, in 30 years, I don't think I have signed a check for the company. — Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
I try not to always use self-check-out and things like that! — Emily Berrington
I think part of a beauty routine is how you feel and checking in with your inner self, and so I made that commitment to myself to do that. — Gwyneth Paltrow
Science, which is only another name for truth, now holds religious charlatans, self-deceivers and God agents in a certain degree of check--agents and employees, I mean, of a mythical, medieval, man-made God, anthropomorphic in constitution. — Luther Burbank
Discovering Your True Self Quotes
The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart. — Julien Green
Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already posses. — Parker J. Palmer
What you discover on your own is always more exciting than what someone else discovers for you - it's like the marriage between romantic love and an arranged marriage. — Terrence Rafferty
Some beautiful paths can't be discovered without getting lost.
The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, wants to re-establish them. Ignorance irritates him and knowledge cloys. — Henri Frederic Amiel
People are best convinced by things they themselves discover.
Try to discover your true, honest, untheoretical self. — Brenda Ueland
Discovering Yourself Quotes
You alone are the judge of your worth and your goal is to discover infinite worth in yourself, no matter what anyone else thinks. — Deepak Chopra
When your world falls apart and you're left with just yourself, you're forced to discover who you are without all the beliefs, expectations, views, & self-image provided by some teacher or system. The calculating mind gives way to the intuitive mind, Knowing without Thinking. — Gabrielle Roth
The hard thing when you get old is to keep your horizons open. The first part of your life everything is in front of you, all your potential and promise. But over the years, you make decisions; you carve yourself into a given shape. Then the challenge is to keep discovering the green growing edge. — Howard Thurman
Friendship is a buried treasure waiting to be discovered.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch - what make you go beyond the norm. — Cicely Tyson
The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation. You are not discovering yourself, but creating yourself anew. Seek therefore, not to find out Who You Are, but seek to determine Who You Want to Be. — Neale Donald Walsch
The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself. — W. Somerset Maugham
To love yourself, truly love yourself, is to finally discover the essence of personal courage, self-respect, integrity, and self-esteem. These are the qualities of grace that come directly from a soul with stamina. — Caroline Myss
If you feel lost, disappointed, hesitant, or weak, return to yourself, to who you are, here and now and when you get there, you will discover yourself, like a lotus flower in full bloom, even in a muddy pond, beautiful and strong. — Masaru Emoto
Journey Of Self Discovery Quotes
The most important relationship we can all have is the one you have with yourself, the most important journey you can take is one of self-discovery. To know yourself, you must spend time with yourself, you must not be afraid to be alone. Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. — Aristotle
Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery. Love, and don't be caught in opinions and ideas about what love is or should be. When you love, everything will come right. Love has its own action. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Marriage is not a static state between two unchanging people. Marriage is a psychological and spiritual journey that begins in the ecstasy of attraction, meanders through a rocky stretch of self-discovery, and culminates in the creation of an intimate, joyful, lifelong union. — Harville Hendrix
Investing is a journey of self-discovery, where we learn about our own biases and emotions. — Gautam Baid
Ultimately, I want people to be inspired to go on their own journey of self-discovery. — Hannah Bronfman
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. — Diane von Furstenberg
A leader will find it difficult to articulate a coherent vision unless it expresses his core values, his basic identity...one must first embark on the formidable journey of self-discovery in order to create a vision with authentic soul. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Journey from the self to the Self and find the mine of gold. Leave behind what is sour and bitter and move toward the sweet. — Rumi
If you learn only methods, you'll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods. — Ray Bradbury
High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society. — Carl Hart
Self Discovery Quotes
It takes courage...to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives. — Marianne Williamson
We will never know our full potential unless we push ourselves to find it. It's this self discovery that inevitably takes us to the wildest places on earth. — Travis Rice
Let your heart guide you...it whispers so listen closely. — Walt Disney
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. — Anna Quindlen
When you release the wrongdoer from the wrong, you cut a malignant tumor out of your inner life. You set a prisoner free, but you discover that the real prisoner was yourself. — Lewis B. Smedes
God must become an activity in our consciousness. — Joel S. Goldsmith
Embracing discomfort can lead to self-discovery and personal transformation. — Michael Easter
It's only when we understand who we really are that we open up the possibility of becoming the person we wish to be. — Rangan Chatterjee
Meditation is the key to unlocking your full potential. — Wim Hof
Very few people try to know themselves. And those who have been able to know themselves even a little. That peoples great. The whole world knows him. — Vishesh Panthi
Finding Yourself Quotes
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. — Mahatma Gandhi
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. — George Bernard Shaw
The first great thing is to find yourself and for that you need solitude and contemplation - at least sometimes. I can tell you deliverance will not come from the rushing noisy centers of civilization. It will come from the lonely places. — Fridtjof Nansen
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this. — Henry David Thoreau
If you don’t find a way to love a flawed person, secretly you’re teaching yourself that you are not lovable because of your flaws. — T. D. Jakes
The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life. — Frank Lloyd Wright
If you find it hard to laugh at yourself, I would be happy to do it for you. — Groucho Marx
He will provide the way and the means, such as you could never have imagined. Leave it all to Him, let go of yourself, lose yourself on the Cross, and you will find yourself entirely. — St. Catherine of Siena
If you form the habit of taking what someone else says about a thing without checking it out for yourself, you'll find that other people will have you hating your friends and loving your enemies. — Malcolm X
Finding Myself Quotes
I just always wanted to study human behavior because every psychologist that I would talk to would tell me I was bipolar, and I know I'm not bipolar, so I had to perform a psychoanalysis on myself to find out that I have unresolved grief. — Kevin Gates
People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don't find myself saying, "Soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner." I don't try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds. — Carl Rogers
I know not how I seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with while the vast ocean of undiscovered truth lay before me. — Isaac Newton
I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself. — Ferdinand Porsche
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell. — Edna St. Vincent Millay
I decided upon the thought that I can only find myself once I can admit to myself and approve that both sides are sides of myself. — Kim Nam-joon
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell. — Edna St. Vincent Millay
I've often lost myself, in order to find the burn that keeps everything awake — Federico Garcia Lorca
In the beginning I looked around and, not finding the automobile of my dreams, decided to build it myself. — Ferdinand Porsche
It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering. It is not found in a forest or on a hilltop, nor is it given by a teacher. Where you experience suffering, you can also find freedom from suffering. Trying to run away from suffering is actually to run toward it. — Ajahn Chah
Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible. — Carl Jung
When one realizes God, He grants knowledge and illumination from within; one knows it oneself. In the fullness of one's spiritual realization one will find that He who resides in one's heart, resides in the hearts of others as well - the oppressed, the persecuted, the untouchable, and the outcast. — Sarada Devi
If one completes the journey to one's own heart, one will find oneself in the heart of everyone else. — Thomas Keating
Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all. — Rollo May
Finding oneself and one's path is like waking up on a foggy day. Be patient, and presently the fog will clear and that which has always been there can be seen. The path is already there to follow — Rasheed Ogunlaru
One of the things I like about my profession, and that I find healthy, is that one constantly has to break oneself to pieces. — Liv Ullmann
Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for this, or for that in particular; to be an obsessional means to find oneself caught in a mechanism, in a trap increasingly demanding and endless. — Jacques Lacan
Do not lose heart, even if you should discover that you lack qualities necessary for the work to which you are called. He who called you will not desert you, but the moment you are in need he will stretch out his saving hand. — Angela Merici
You don't become a new person by changing your behavior; you discover who you are in Christ and your behavior changes accordingly — Graham Cooke
Thoughts are impediments to seeing your deepest nature.
Don't give rise to any thought, and discover who you are.
That ocean of eternal peace is you.
What is the difficulty that we suffer from?
It is that we seek peace elsewhere and do not experience that we are peace incarnate itself. — H. W. L. Poonja
It is only those who are in constant revolt that discover what is true, not the man who conforms, who follows some tradition. It is only when you are constantly inquiring, constantly observing, constantly learning, that you find truth, God, or love. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
I am inviting you to discover that deeper than any pattern, deeper than personality, deeper than success or failure, deeper than worth or worthlessness, there is a radiance that is undeniable, always present - the truth of who you are. — Gangaji
Love yourself and be awake- Today, tomorrow, always. First establish yourself in the way, Then teach others, And so defeat sorrow. To straighten the crooked You must first do a harder thing- Straighten yourself. You are your only master. Who else? Subdue yourself, And discover your master. — Buddha
Photography gives you the opportunity to use your sensibility and everything you are to say something about and be part of the world around you. In this way, you might discover who you are, and with a little luck, you might discover something much larger than yourself. — Peter Lindbergh
Risk, then, is not just part of life. It is life. The place between your comfort zone and your dream is where life takes place. It's the high-anxiety zone, but it's also where you discover who you are. — Nick Vujicic
Who is journeying for freedom? The one who is already free. Thoughts are impediments to seeing your own face. Don't give rise to any thought, and discover who you are. — H. W. L. Poonja
Self Exploration Quotes
It’s amazing what we can do when our passion meets a purpose greater than our self. That’s why we need to explore our curiosity. Invest in what interests us. Follow what intrigues us. — Jay Shetty
Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way. — Noam Chomsky
We need to embrace discomfort as an opportunity for self-exploration and growth. — Michael Easter
I’m self-made because I was learning, working, exploring, climbing, and moving forward. — Vladimer Botsvadze
After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. — Sophia Loren
He (the Shaman) is a self-reliant explorer of the endless mansions of a magnificent hidden universe. — Michael Harner
There is so much more to life than meets the eye if you choose to seek it. The seeker becomes the finder, the finder of so much more than we thought was possible. — Wim Hof
I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads. — Paulo Coelho
All writing is an act of self-exploration. Even a grocery list says something about you; how much more does a novel say? — Steven Saylor
Creativity is the ability to identify self-imposed constraints, remove them, and explore the consequences of their removal. — Russell L. Ackoff
Knowing Oneself Quotes
In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Thus one should know oneself to be of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss[Sat-Chit-Ananda]. — Adi Shankara
As I began to love myself I freed myself of anything that is no good for my health - food, people, things, situations, and everything that drew me down and away from myself. At first I called this attitude a healthy egoism. Today I know it is Love of Oneself. — Charlie Chaplin
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself. — Michel de Montaigne
Most traditional methods of working on oneself are mostly pain centered. People get to repeat over and over their painful emotions without knowing how to use the body's own inherently positive direction and force. — Eugene Gendlin
The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself. — Galileo Galilei
[To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of self-knowledge is humility . . . — Flannery O'Connor
Expressing oneself in the world and creativity are the same. It may not be possible to know who you are without somehow expressing it. — Rick Rubin
Belief in oneself and knowing who you are, I mean, that’s the foundation for everything great. — Jay-Z
Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study one self in action with another person. Relationship is a process of self evaluation and self revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself - to be is to be related. — Bruce Lee
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. — Mark Twain
I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go. — Langston Hughes
The child who has felt a strong love for his surroundings and for all living creatures, who has discovered joy and enthusiasm in work, gives us reason to hope that humanity can develop in a new direction. — Maria Montessori
By the help of microscopes, there is nothing so small, as to escape our inquiry; hence there is a new visible world discovered to the understanding. — Robert Hooke
Moses spent forty years thinking he was somebody; forty years learning he was nobody; and forty years discovering what God can do with a nobody. — Dwight L. Moody
My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after. — Henry David Thoreau
If you have discovered a truth, tell it first to a parrot! Every new truth needs an insistent repetition! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, "By thinking about it all the time. — Isaac Newton
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. — Marcel Proust
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. — Henry David Thoreau
Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself. — Bernard Meltzer
One sometimes finds what one is not looking for. When I woke up just after dawn on Sept. 28, 1928, I certainly didn’t plan to revolutionize all medicine by discovering the world’s first antibiotic, or bacteria killer. But I guess that was exactly what I did. — Alexander Fleming
I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God — Soren Kierkegaard
I have always looked at life as a voyage, mostly wonderful, sometimes frightening. In my family and friends I have discovered treasure more valuable than gold. — Jimmy Buffett
We have only to see a few letters of the alphabet spelling our name in the sand to recognize at once the work of an intelligent agent. How much more likely, then is the existence of an intelligent Creator behind human DNA, the colossal biological database that contains no fewer than 3.5 billion "letters the longest "word" yet discovered?" — John Lennox
The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money. — Alexis de Tocqueville
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