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 Discovering Self Quotes
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. — Aristotle
Relax, you're on a journey of discovery. Let life reveal itself to you. — Melody Beattie
One of the basic laws of human existence is: find yourself, know yourself, be yourself. — Norman Vincent Peale
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. — Bruce Lee
I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for ones self. — George Washington Carver
Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity. — Jane Austen
You never find yourself until you face the truth. — Pearl Bailey
Part of the blessing and challenge of being human is that we must discover our own true nature. — Mark Nepo
Discovering Self Image Quotes
Maturity is learning to walk away from people and situation that threaten your peace of mind, self respect, values, morals and self worth.
Discovering True Self Quotes
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately. — Henry David Thoreau
We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is. — Jackson Pollock
We are what we believe we are.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
In giving of yourself, you will discover a whole new life full of meaning and love. — Cesar Chavez
Discover real peace and harmony within yourself, and naturally this will overflow to benefit others. — S. N. Goenka
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
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
It is in playing and only in playing that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and to use the whole personality, and it is only in being creative that the individual discovers the self. — Donald Woods Winnicott
The mind grows by self revelation. In play the child ascertains what he can do, discovers his possibilities of will and thought by exerting his power spontaneously. In work he follows a task prescribed for him by another, and doesn't reveal his own proclivities and inclinations; but another's. In play he reveals his own original power. — Friedrich Frobel
Listening is much more than allowing another to talk while waiting for a chance to respond. Listening is paying full attention to others and welcoming them into our very beings. The beauty of listening is that those who are listened to start feeling accepted, start taking our words more seriously and discovering their true selves. — Henri Nouwen
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
When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life. — Jean Shinoda Bolen
As you watch your mind, you discover your self as the watcher. When you stand motionless, only watching, you discover your self as the light behind the watcher. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
I didn't get into ultra-endurance sports to win races, beat others, or stand atop podiums. I got into it because it's a perfect template for self-discovery--a physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual odyssey to more deeply understand myself, determine my purpose, and discover my place in the world. A way to tap into my unexplored reservoirs of potential--and touch the other side. This was the promise of Ultraman. And it delivered in spades. — Rich Roll
The greatest discovery in life is to discover that our essential nature does not share the limits nor the destiny of the body and mind. — Rupert Spira
I have discovered that my freedom is within me, and nothing can destroy it. — Janet Frame
By living a life based on wisdom and truth, one can discover the divinity of the soul, its union to the universe, the supreme peace and contentment which comes from satisfying the inner drive for self-discovery. — Egyptian Proverbs
I can give glib answers all day long, but you have to discover your own personal answer. — Naval Ravikant
It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however little they acknowledge it, one later discovers that they were among the most powerful promoters of decadence. — Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Finding happiness is like finding yourself. You don't find happiness, you make happiness. You choose happiness. Self-actualization is a process of discovering who you are, who you want to be and paving the way to happiness by doing what brings you the most meaning and contentment to your life over the long run. — David Leonhardt
one must verge on the unknown, write toward the truth hitherto unrecognizable of one’s own sincerity, including the avoidable beauty of doom, shame, and embarrassment, that very area of personal self-recognition,(detailed individual is universal remember) which formal conventions, internalized, keep us from discovering in ourselves and others — Allen Ginsberg
I've been there. I too bought into the great lie. Blinded by its false promise, I spent years in pursuit of a life I didn't mindfully choose. But rather than do something about it, anything, I simply medicated myself to salve a pain I wasn't even consciously aware I harbored. Drugs, alcohol, fast food--you name it. It's a path that took me to some very dark places. And it's a life that left me profoundly desperate, accelerating me to the grave without any awareness that deep down, lying dormant, was a song. A song yet to be discovered. A song yearning to be sung. — Rich Roll
When the act of reflection takes place in the mind, when we look at ourselves in the light of thought, we discover that our life is embosomed in beauty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open. — Shakti Gawain
It is through the alignment of the body that I discovered the alignment of my mind, self, and intelligence. — B.K.S. Iyengar
If we must lose wife or husband when we live to our highest right, we lose an unhappy marriage as well, and we gain ourselves. But if a marriage is born between two already self-discovered, what a lovely adventure begins, hurricanes and all. — Richard Bach
I now discover how wonderful I am. I choose to love and enjoy myself. — Louise Hay
Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself - to be is to be related. — Bruce Lee
New Year's Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. Answers to be discovered and then lived in this transformative year of delight and self-discovery. Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change. — Sarah Ban Breathnach
That which you or I think is most unique about ourselves we hide. In ordinary discourse, in the normal state, we share our common self, our superficial self. Yet what is most unique about us is what has the greatest potential for bonding us. When we share our uniqueness, we discover the commonality in greatness that defines everyone on the planet. — Robert E. Quinn
An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it's beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth... Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them. — Pope Francis
One has to discover everything for oneself. And get over it all alone. — Tove Jansson
Managing our emotions increases intuition and clarity. It helps us self-regulate our brain chemicals and internal hormones. It gives us natural highs, the real fountain of youth we've been searching for. It enables us to drink from elixirs locked within our cells, just waiting for us to discover them. — Doc Childre
Neuroscientists have discovered that when you ask the brain to meditate, it gets better, not just at meditating, but at a wide range of self-control skills Over time, [meditators'] brains become finely tuned willpower machines. — Kelly McGonigal
In looking for my mind, I discovered that it seems to be in many different places. Sometimes it is drinking a glass of water, remembering swimming in the summer, feeling the breeze. In this contemplation I observed that the self is more elusive than I thought. — Sakyong Mipham
Let a man neither give himself over to pleasures ... nor yet let him give himself over to self-mortification ... To the exclusion of both these extremes, the Truth-Finder has discovered a middle course. — Buddha
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