Discovering self Quotes

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through.

— Anais Nin

Both therapy and friendship possessed the common denominator of discovering a self.

— Dorothy Gilman

Nail me to my car and I'll tell you who you are

— Chris Burden

Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

— Oscar Wilde

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately...

— Henry David Thoreau

Tell me with whom you associate, and I will tell you who you are.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us.

— Marianne Williamson

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…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What you discover on your own is always more exciting than what someone else discovers for you - it's like the marriage…

— Terrence Rafferty

Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, wants to re-establish them. Ignorance…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something.

— Carl Jung

“True power doesn't come from knowing. True power comes from discovering. Self-discovery and reflection not only give you the answers you look…

— Kitty Downer

A leader will find it difficult to articulate a coherent vision unless it expresses his core values, his basic identity...one must first…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers,…

— Saint Augustine