Self-discovery Quotes

He not busy being born is busy dying.

When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.

It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.

Who hasn't asked himself, am I a monster or is this what it means to be human?

Oh, don't pull your hand away from me, I've promised myself that maybe by the end of this impossible...

Try this for deviancy: fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' conscience; what purebloods see...

And I have wondered often, was I master in my soul, or did I become the slave of my own blade?

I suppose the shock of recognition is one of the nastiest shocks of all.

In youth, it was a way I had,To do my best to please.And change, with every passing ladTo suit his t...

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gon...

The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and ...

If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary ...

self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.

I suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discour...

I am a wanderer and mountain-climber, said he to his heart, I love not the plains, and it seemeth I ...

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself....His task was to discover his ...

Never again!" commanded his will. "Again! Tomorrow!" begged his heart.

For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribe...

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to li...

For awakened human beings, there was no obligation—none, none, none at all—except this: to search fo...

...that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn’t know who I ...

I've started to feel very odd within my own life. It's most peculiar to feel lonely inside your own ...

A wise man travels to discover himself.

the only source whence any thing like consolation or composure could be drawn, was in the resolution...

We write not just to show off, not just to tell, or only to have written. We write to know ourselves...

the buddhists say there are 149 ways to god. i'm not looking for god, only for myself, and that is f...

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a t...

I shall strip away layer after layer of grime -- the toffee-colored varnish and caked soot left by a...

But what I want to know is, is there a you independent of circumstances? Is there a way-down-deep me...

We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them.

Bottom line is, even if you see 'em coming, you're not ready for the big moments. No one asks for th...

The Way to do is to be.

Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.

Do you ever feel that way?""Lonely?"I search for the words. "Restless. As if you haven't really met ...

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

It takes courage...to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull p...

When the artist finds himself he is lost. The fact that he has succeeded in never finding himself is...

When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a youn...

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you your...

I want to know the age. The sex. Most of all, the fingerprints. I'd like to identify who it is. Aft...

Simple was never that simple. Still, the self-questioning did take some time to reach him. And if th...

If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.

I believe one has to escape oneself to discover oneself.

For sometime now I have believed that it is our own force, all our own force that is still too great...

The only journey is the one within.

It goes a long way back, some twenty years. All my life I had been looking for something, and everyw...

All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what ...

When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.

When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Re...

We make such messes in this life, both accidently and on purpose. But wiping the surface clean doesn...

It was like discovering that some part of you wasn't yours at all. And it made me wonder what else I...

It was so quiet, I could hear my own breathing, loud in my ears. Outside, the ocean was crashing, wa...

Outside, the ocean was crashing, waves hitting sand, then pulling back to sea. I thought of everythi...

I shall now call myself;I shall now call.In the forest of my heart, seeing myself,I shall love mysel...

Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own lab...

To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self.... And to venture in the highes...

We shall not cease from explorationAnd the end of all our exploringWill be to arrive where we starte...

The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not t...

We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselv...

In ourselves our safety must be sought. By our own right hand it must be wrought.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

History, writing, infect after a time a man's sense of himself...

I called it a baptism in flaming ink that forced me to shed my shyness about recognizing myself as a...

Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.

[B]egin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them...

Have love for your inner Self and everything else is done for you.

It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how m...

Mindfulness improves your capacity for self-discovery and empowerment.

When you know the knower within, you don't need to know further. When you know the meditator within,...

A compassionate heart radiates rays of beauty that remove the clouds of million hearts.

If you want to fly on the sky, you need to leave the earth. If you want to move forward, you need to...

Self-observation is the first step of inner unfolding.

The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality and my life, as I write this, is vital eve...

You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren't. You take the action, and the insight follows: ...

And because she did not shove this down my throat, this dawned on me.

It is not how much you love someone, but who you are when you are with him.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest vict...

The price one pays when choosing exile is the loss of all that defines you as an individual. The onl...

It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan yo...