#Self Discovery Quotes

“Youth to itself rebels, though none else near.”

“In sooth I know not why I am so sad. It wearies me, you say it wearies you; But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born, I am to learn.”

“You know who you are, but know not who you could be.”

“Lose yourself in nature and find peace”

“Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.”

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

“The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.”

“What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history, letters, art, and poetry, in all its periods, from the Heroic or Homeric age down to the domestic life of the Athenians and Spartans, four or five centuries later? What but this, that every man passes personally through a Grecian period.”

“None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.”

“Every mind has a new compass, a new direction of its own, differencing its genius and aim from every other mind.--We call this specialty the bias of each individual. And none of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.”

“Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself,-must go over the whole ground. What it does not see, what it does not live, it will not know.”

“Who is it that can tell me who I am?”

“Neither you nor the world knows what you can do until you have tried.”

“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.”

“To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone. The tradesman, the attorney comes out of the din and craft of the street and sees the sky and the woods, and is a man again. In their eternal calm, he finds himself.”

“He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things.”

“The key to every man is his thought.”

“The child realizes to every man his own earliest remembrance, and so supplies a defect in our education, or enables us to live over the unconscious history with a sympathy so tender as to be almost personal experience.”

“What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.”

“Pull the thorn of existence out of the heart! Fast! For when you do, you will see thousands of rose gardens in yourself.”

“Inside you there’s an artist you don’t know about… say yes quickly, if you know, if you’ve known it from before the beginning of the universe.”

“It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to infer. But our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood, and always we are fishing up some wonderful article out of that pond; until, by and by, we begin to suspect that the biography of the one foolish person we know is, in reality, nothing less than the miniature paraphrase of the hundred volumes of the Universal History.”

“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.”

“Open to me, so that I may open.Provide me your inspirationSo that I might see mine.”

“Then outwardly you are the small universe! Then inwardly you are the great universe.”

“In the silence between your heartbeat bides a summons. Do you hear it? Name it if you must, or leave it forever nameless, but why pretend it is not there?”

“Late, by myself, in the boat of myself, no light and no land anywhere, cloudcover thick. I try to stay just above the surface, yet I'm already under and living within the ocean.”

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

“Listen. Make a way for yourself inside yourself. Stop looking in the other way of looking.”

“Your mind, this globe of awareness, is a starry universe. When you push off with your foot, a thousand new roads become clear.”

“I lost everything i have, found myself.”

“Inside you there's an artist you don't know about.”

“I was youand never knew it.”

“Stop searching here and there, the jewels are inside YOU.”

“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.”

“In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.”

“Every individual man has a bias which he must obey, and...it is only as he feels and obeys this that he rightly develops and attains his legitimate power in the world. It is his magnetic needle, which points always in one direction to his proper path.... He is never happy nor strong until he finds it, keeps it.”

“Whatever purifies you is the right path, I will not try to define it.”

“Inside any deep asking is the answering.”

“Authentic freedom is actually the freedom of knowing who you are, why you are here, your purpose in life and where you are going when you leave here.”

“There's a part of you that you can get a hold of, and there's a part of you that you can never get a hold of, and those are opposite things. Who are you? Which one are you? You are combinations of opposites.”

“Discarding doubt is a decision to reconnect to your original self.”

“For all our penny-wisdom, for all our soul-destroying slavery to habit, it is not to be doubted that all men have sublime thoughts; that all men value the few real hours of life; they love to be heard; they love to be caught up into the vision of principles. We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had, in the dreary years of routine and of sin, with souls that made our souls wiser; that spoke what we thought; that told us what we knew; that gave us leave to be what we only were.”

“I am not much an advocate for traveling, and I observe that men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places. For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?”

“Love is a mirror. In it you see nothing except your reflection. You see nothing except your real face.”

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

“Let Go of Your Worries Let go of your worries and be completely clear-hearted, like the face of a mirror that contains no images. If you want a clear mirror, behold yourself and see the shameless truth, which the mirror reflects. If metal can be polished to a mirror-like finish, what polishing might the mirror of the heart require? Between the mirror and the heart is this single difference: the heart conceals secrets, while the mirror does not.”

“Let the waters settle and you will see the moon and the stars mirrored in your own being.”

“From the Distance You only See My Light; Come closer and You will Know that I Am You.”

“A little while alone in your roomwill prove more valuable than anything elsethat could ever be given you.”