Self Discovery Quotes

Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyph to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life before he apprehends it as truth.

Wherever we go, whatever we do, self is the sole subject we study and learn.

Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey to the ocean of meanings.... Leave and don't look away from the sun as you go, in whose light you're sometimes crescent, sometimes full.

Man is a universe within himself.

A teacher is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself.

I'm always looking for insights into the real Doris Day because I'm stuck with this infatuation and need to explain it to myself.

Stop leaving and you will arrive, Stop searching and you will see, Stop running away and you will be found.

I'm trying to find myself. Sometimes it's not that easy.

The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct.

Only by trying on other people's clothes do we find what size we are.

If you follow your bliss...the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.

Our unconscious is the key to our life's pursuits.

Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.

Not all who hesitate are lost. The psyche has many secrets in reserve. And these are not disclosed unless required.

You think you know me, but I'm not sure that even I know who I am anymore.

When you're looking so hard to get on your path, you're putting up resistance that keeps you from finding it.

I didn't pay much attention to the whistles and whoops, in fact, I didn't quite hear them. I was full of a strange feeling, as if I were two people. One of them was Norma Jeane from the orphanage who belonged to nobody; the other was someone whose name I didn't know. But I knew where she belonged; she belonged to the ocean and the sky and the whole world.

There are something like 18 billion cells in the brain alone. There are no two brains alike; there are no two hands alike; there are no two human beings alike. You can take your instructions and your guidance from others, but you must find your own path.

Every relationship that we have in our lives - our contact with each person, place, and event - serves a very special, if yet to be realized purpose: They are mirrors that can serve to show us things about ourselves that can be realized in no other way.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

Eventually you get to this point where you understand what you want to do and get across and sound like.

Because of styles people are separated. Research your own experience, absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is essentially your own.

I learned what it is to live in the open air, and I learned that our lives are domestic in more sense than we think.

Without willing it, I had gone from being ignorant of being ignorant to being aware of being aware. And the worst part of my awareness was that I didn't know what I was aware of. I knew I knew very little, but I was certain that the things I had yet to learn wouldn't be taught to me at George Washington High School.

Doing as others told me, I was Blind. Coming when others called me, I was Lost. Then I left everyone, myself as well. Then I found Everyone, Myself as well.

For a man needs only to be turned around once with his eyes shut in this world to be lost...Not 'til we are lost do we begin to find ourselves.

You must go in quest of yourself, and you will find yourself again only in the simple and forgotten things.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

The function of (heroic) symbols is to give you a sense of Aha! Yes, I know what it is, it's myself.

The more real you get, the more unreal everything else is.

I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. . . . In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness.

There is most certainly a purpose you are yearning to fulfill. Find it, know it, follow it, and you can change the world.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

The way to choose happiness is to follow what is right and real and the truth for you.

The source is within you. And this whole world is springing up from it.

I can find my biography in every fable that I read.

Engineering didn't take to me. And what saved me and kept me in college was I ran into ROTC cadets who were in a fraternity called The Pershing Rifles. And I found my place. I found discipline. I found structure. I found people that were like me and I liked.

If you want to know me, look inside your heart.

Now that my ladder's gone, I must lie down where all my ladders start, In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart.

At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.

Am I too fast, too facile? I do not know. I do not know myself sometimes, or how to measure and name and count out the grains that make me what I am.

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn't think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

I went deep inside myself. I had time to explore my beliefs and because of that I'm stronger. Bob Marley (March 1981)

Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind.

Who is it that can tell me who I am?

Every hero must have the courage to be alone, to take the journey for himself.

In their daily life, all are braver than they know.

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

Do not wander far and wide but return into yourself. Deep within man there dwells the truth.

Every one is least known to himself, and it is very difficult for a man to know himself.

I felt as though I was partly unlearning what i had never learned and yet knew so well: I mean, how to live.

Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness - all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had - outside of us.

For now she need not think of anybody. She coud be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others... and this self having shed its attachments was free for the strangest adventures.

Is not the midnight like Central Africa to most of us? Are we not tempted to explore it,--to penetrate to the shores of its Lake Tchad, and discover the source of its Nile, perchance the Mountains of the Moon? Who knows what fertility and beauty, moral and natural, are to be found? In the Mountains of the Moon, in the Central Africa of the night, there is where all Niles have their hidden heads. The expeditions up the Nile as yet extend but to the Cataracts, or perchance to the mouth of the White Nile; but it is the black Nile that concerns us.

We need to see, and agree that what we seek already lives within us, and we within it. Now we know our one great task: watch for whatever promises us freedom, and then quietly, consciously refuse to see ourselves through the eyes of what we know is incomplete. Then we live wholeness itself, instead of spending our lives looking for it.

Always search for your innermost nature in those you are with, as rose oil imbibes from roses.

There is no greater gift you can give or receive than to honor your calling. It's why you were born. And how you become most truly alive.

Being a star just means that you just find your own special place and that you shine where you are. To me that's what being a star means.

I was going through the hardest thing, also the greatest thing, for any human being to do; to accept that which is already within you, and around you.

Every person has his or her own vocation-talent is the call.