Self Discovery Quotes

274 quotes by 207 authors

If you aren't sure who you are, you might as well work on who you want to be. — Robert Breault
You can live a lifetime and at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself. — Beryl Markham
Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason, not that you have no reason for living. — Tom O'Connor
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
In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of… — Andre Gide
No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery - the source of truth. — Barry Long
If we make a couple of discoveries here and there we need not believe things will go on like this for ever. Just as we… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
The more one forgives himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is… — Viktor E. Frankl
We don't always know what makes us happy. We know, instead, what we think SHOULD. We are baffled and confused when our attempts at happiness… — Julia Cameron
The greatest discoveries are those that shed light unto ourselves. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be ourselves causes us to be exiled by many others, and yet to comply with what others want causes us to be exiled from… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The more in vibrational sync you are with who you really are, then the more you are allowing only those things that you're wanting, and… — Esther Hicks
Art is about energy positive and negative. All art has the power to heal because it helps us see who we are, and what we… — Shirley MacLaine
Creativity requires introspection, self-examination, and a willingness to take risks. Because of this, artists are perhaps more susceptible to self-doubt and despair than those who… — Eric Maisel
Two people have been living in you all your life. One is the ego, garrulous, demanding, hysterical, calculating - the other is the hidden spiritual… — Sogyal Rinpoche
You must begin to trust yourself. If you do not then you will forever be looking to others to prove your own merit to you,… — Jane Roberts
Listen. Make a way for yourself inside yourself. Stop looking in the other way of looking. — Rumi
You are always your own best guru, your own best teacher, the answers are always inside you. — Sathya Sai Baba
Silence has many dimensions. It can be a regression and an escape, a loss of self, or it can be presence, awareness, unification, self-discovery. Negative… — Thomas Merton

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