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
Sometimes when you lose your way, you find YOURSELF. — Mandy Hale
It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else. — Mariska Hargitay
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
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 basic laws of human existence is: find yourself, know yourself, be yourself. — Norman Vincent Peale
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
To know oneself, one should assert oneself. — Albert Camus
Committing yourself is a way of finding out who you are. A man finds his identity by identifying. — Robert E. Terwilliger
You must go in quest of yourself, and you will find yourself again only in the simple and forgotten things. — Carl Jung
Experience the beauties of nature, and in doing so learn about yourself. — Japanese Proverbs
Finding your passion isn't just about careers and money. It's about finding your authentic self. The one you've buried beneath other people's needs. — Kristin Hannah
Short Finding Oneself Quotes
Experience nature, and in doing so learn about yourself. — Japanese Proverbs
Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world. — Thomas Moore
You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present. — Eckhart Tolle
You never find yourself until you face the truth. — Pearl Bailey
Man shall find his anchorage in self-recognition. — Louis Sullivan
be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be. — Henry David Thoreau
Spring is a time to find out where you are, who you are, and move toward where you are going. — Penelope Trunk
Each man had only one genuine vocation to find the way to himself. — Hermann Hesse
Before you can find God, you must lose yourself. — Baal Shem Tov
One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself. — Claude M. Bristol
Finding Oneself Image Quotes
For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and, if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.
Happiness Finding Yourself Quotes
If you find it hard to laugh at yourself, I would be happy to do it for you. — Groucho Marx
When you find yourself in a position to help someone, be happy because Allah is answering that person’s prayer through you. — Nouman Ali Khan
Our happiest times are those in which we forget ourselves, usually in being kind to someone else. That tiny moment of self-abdication is an act of true humility: the man who loses himself finds himself and finds his happiness. — Fulton J. Sheen
Everyone comes with baggage. Find someone who loves you enough to help you unpack.
Sometimes you have to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything - whatever is bringing you down - get rid of it. Because you will find that when you are free, your true creativity, your true self comes out. — Tina Turner
Find something that is a happy, healthy alternative to hurting yourself, as opposed to taking a razor blade to yourself because at the end of the day, you're only hurting the most important person in the world and that's you. And you don't want to hurt that person. — Andy Biersack
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. — Henry David Thoreau
When you start seeing your worth, you'll find it harder to stay around people who don't.
To look into that persons eyes and find yourself so completely lost in another world, a world full of absolute comfort and happiness. — Lily Collins
Don’t find someone that makes you happy. Make yourself happy then find someone. — Steven Bartlett
Do what you will while you're able, find what it is that you seek. — Xavier Rudd
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. — Benjamin Franklin
Losing And Finding Yourself Quotes
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
In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself. — Deepak Chopra
The woman who follows the crowd will usually go on further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.
Healthy attachment doesn’t mean losing yourself in someone else; it’s about finding a balance between closeness and individuality. — Amir Levine
Lose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find. — St. Catherine of Siena
You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave - win or lose. — Gordie Howe
You must be willing to leave the life that you planned in order to find the one waiting for you.
You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave -- win or lose. — Gordie Howe
once you lose yourself, you have two choices: find the person you used to be, or lose that person completely. — H. G. Wells
Pilgrimage means being alert to the times when all that's needed is a trip to a remote place to simply lose yourself, and to the times when what's needed is a journey to a sacred place, in all its glorious and fearsome masks, to find yourself. — Phil Cousineau
If you find yourself concentrating on the technology rather than the sociology, you're like the vaudeville character who loses his keys on a dark street and looks for them on the adjacent street because, as he explains, "The light is better there." — Tom DeMarco
Life Is Finding Yourself Quotes
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. — George Bernard Shaw
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
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
You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible. — Deepak Chopra
The more we search for ourselves, the less likely we are to find ourselves; and the more we search for God, and to serve our fellow-men, the more profoundly will we become acquainted with ourselves, and the more inwardly assured. This is one of the great spiritual laws of life. — Shoghi Effendi
Somewhere in your life, some resource is either being wasted or being inefficiently managed. Find out what it is and improve upon it. Of course, your most precious resource is yourself. Are you using yourself enough? — Mahatria Ra
What's meant to be will always find its way. Always.
Hard work is painful when life is devoid of purpose. But when you live for something greater than yourself and the gratification of your own ego, then hard work becomes a labor of love. — Steve Pavlina
Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly. The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. — Frank Lloyd Wright
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
Lost Finding Yourself Quotes
If you have made a mistake or committed an inaccuracy there is no need to become annoyed and to think that everything is lost. You have to reorientate yourself quickly and find a new plan in the new situation. — David Bronstein
Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes. — Annie Dillard
If, in moving through your life, you find yourself lost, go back to the last place where you knew who you were, and what you were doing, and start from there. — Bernice Johnson Reagon
I lost myself trying to please everyone else. Now I'm losing everyone while I'm finding myself.
Well, I was lost but now I live here! I have severely improved my predicament! — Mitch Hedberg
The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it--just don't get lost in it. — Ram Dass
You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy.
Navigate by the same star, unwilling to change, and you find yourself not only off-course but lost. — Richard Bach
If you find yourself lost in the woods, build a house. "Well, I was lost, but now I live here!" — Mitch Hedberg
As Dante says in the beginning of the Inferno, 'In the midst of life's journey I found myself in a dark wood, for the right path was lost.' I think we're all doing that, in our various ways Looking for our Selves in the dark wood. I hope you find yourself on your journey. — Christopher Vogler
Think about all the good things of your life. Never think about your difficulties. Forget yourself, and concentrate on being of service as much as you can in this world, and then, having lost your lower self in a cause greater than yourself, you will find your higher self: your real self. — Peace Pilgrim
Finding Yourself Quotes
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. — Mahatma Gandhi
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
Every time you find some humor in a difficult situation, you win.
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 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
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born... and the day you find out why.
Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize? — Marcus Aurelius
Change your conception of yourself and you will automatically change the world in which you live. Do not try to change people; they are only messengers telling you who you are. Revalue yourself and they will confirm the change. — Neville Goddard
Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life. — Pablo Neruda
But beauty is about finding the right fit, the most natural fit, To be perfect, you have to feel perfect about yourself --- avoid trying to be something you're not. For a goddess, that's especially hard. We can change so easily. -Aphrodite — Rick Riordan
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
How amazing is it to find someone who wants to hear about all the things that go in your head.
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
Discovering Self Quotes
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately. — Henry David Thoreau
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
Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people's opinions who don't know themselves. — Osho
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
We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us. — Jean-Paul Sartre
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
Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is. — Jackson Pollock
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
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
Discovering Yourself Quotes
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 secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself. — W. Somerset Maugham
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
...nobody can stand truth if it is told to him. Truth can be tolerated only if you discover it yourself because then, the pride of discovery makes the truth palatable. — Frederick Salomon Perls
If you're willing to put yourself and your dreams on the line, at the very least you'll discover an inner strength you may not have known existed. — Kurt Warner
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
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
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
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
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
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
I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself. — Marlene Dietrich
Mankind is notoriously too dense to read the signs that God sends from time to time. We require drums to be beaten into our ears, before we should wake from our trance and hear the warning and see that to lose oneself in all, is the only way to find oneself. — Mahatma Gandhi
One must not be afraid of a little silence. Some find silence awkward or oppressive. But a relaxed approach to dialogue will include the welcoming of some silence. It is often a devastating question to ask oneself, but it is sometimes important to ask it - 'In saying what I have in mind will I really improve on the silence? — Robert K. Greenleaf
Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her. — Lao Tzu
To find out who you are is like putting yourself on a psychiatric couch, but you have nobody to help you. Really it isn't easy. I was talking with my nephew this morning and he gave me one of the best quotes I've heard in years 'Personal style is curiosity about oneself.' — Iris Apfel
I have always been unsatisfied with life as most people live it. Always I want to live more intensely and richly. why muck and conceal one's true longings and loves, when by speaking of them one might find someone to understand them, and by acting on them one might discover oneself? — Everett Ruess
No culture has yet solved the dilemma each has faced with the growth of a conscious mind: how to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in all life, when one finds darkness not only in one’s own culture but within oneself. — Barry Lopez
What is magic? In the deepest sense, magic is an experience. It's the experience of finding oneself alive within a world that is itself alive. It is the experience of contact and communication between oneself and something that is profoundly different from oneself: a swallow, a frog, a spider weaving its web. — David Abram
Searching all directions with one's awareness, one finds no one dearer than oneself. In the same way, others are fiercely dear to themselves. So one should not hurt others if one loves oneself. — Thanissaro Bhikkhu
The people with the clear heads are the ones who look life in the face, realize that everything in it is problematic, and feel themselves lost. And this is the simple truth: that to live is to feel oneself lost. Those who accept it have already begun to find themselves, to be on firm ground. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
My idea of elegance – and this refers to women as well as men – is that someone is elegant when he or she shows a good knowledge of what fits them, where you can find naturalness and self-esteem. Not showing off. Elegance is the idea of showing an optimistic depiction of oneself, and to lose oneself in the frivolity of style and fashion. — Stefano Pilati
Finding oneself was a misnomer; a self is not found but made. — Jacques Barzun
A love story is not about those who lost their heart but about those who find that sullen inhabitant who, when it is stumbled upon, means the body can fool no one, can fool nothing—not the wisdom of sleep or the habit of social graces. It is a consuming of oneself and the past. — Michael Ondaatje
I sometimes wonder if the inability to find oneself makes one seek oneself in other people, in characters. — John Cazale
Reunions are always fraught with awkward tensions - the necessity to account for oneself; the attempt to find, through memories, an ember of the old emotions. — Anita Shreve
If you can sit at set of sun And count the deeds that you have done And counting find oneself-denying act, one word That eased the heart of him that heard. One glance most kind, Which fell like sunshine where he went, Then you may count that day well spent. — Robert Browning
Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure. — Bertrand Russell
No matter what kind of difficult situation one may find oneself in, some opening, some opportunity to fight one's way out, can always be found. What's most important is to hold fast to Hope, to face the future with courage. — Daisaku Ikeda
I find it awfully difficult to determine if the habit of talking about oneself at length runs contrary to the basic rules of propriety, or if instead the man exempt from this vice is rare. — Giacomo Leopardi
The most important step in emancipating oneself from social controls is the ability to find rewards in the events of each moment. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
But I owe something to Vincent, and that is, in the consciousness of having been useful to him, the confirmation of my own original ideas about painting. And also, at difficult moments, the remembrance that one finds others unhappier than oneself. — Paul Gauguin
There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter. — Guy Debord
What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less than what one allows others to find. — Andre Breton
Belief in oneself is a crucial quality of leadership, because 'a house divided against itself cannot stand.' A leader who fluctuates back and forth sends a very wavery signal. Like the soprano who can shatter glass by finding that high note and holding it, a leader who can hold that high note, without wavering, can shatter walls. — Laurie Beth Jones
Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary. — Francoise Sagan
Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances. — Cesare Pavese
the female view that one strengthens oneself by strengthening others is finding greater acceptance, and female values of inclusion and connection are emerging as valuable leadership qualities. — Sally Helgesen
Among many reasons for being stupid it may be urged, it is being like other people, and living like one's neighbours, and indeed without it, it may be difficult to love some neighbours as oneself: now seeing the necessity of being dull, you won't, I hope, take it amiss that you find me so. — Elizabeth Montagu
Me personally, I'm a guy who it took a long time to figure out what I'm supposed to be doing. I relate to a lot of that finding oneself a little later in the game, or being thrown a curve later in the game. — Kurt Sutter
There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn't just fall to a person's lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn't go to anyone other than oneself to find her. — Seneca
Theoretically there is no absolute proof that one's awakening in the morning (the finding oneself again in the saddle of one's personality) is not really a quite unprecedented event, a perfectly original birth. — Vladimir Nabokov
To live is to hurt others, and through others, to hurt oneself. Cruel earth! How can we manage not to touch anything? To find what ultimate exile? — Albert Camus
Everyone eventually winds up writing about themselves - the problem is finding the best way to go about it. To write about oneself literally, in the first person, presumes a more interesting personal life and philosophy than most rock lyricists possess. John Lennon was good for one great album based on musical direct address, 'Plastic Ono Band. — Jon Landau
If, as Marshall McLuhan once taught us, the medium is the message, then Derfner's medium-this lovely, discursive amalgamation of wit and smarts-is indeed his message about how to stay happy, sane, and honest in whatever situation one finds oneself in. — Philip Gambone
But by fighting the difficulties in which one finds oneself, an inner strength develops from within our heart, which improves in life's fight. — Vincent Van Gogh
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