Self Discovery Quotes

274 quotes by 196 authors

Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time. — Timothy Leary
After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it… — Sophia Loren
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. — Nelson Mandela
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves. — Rollo May
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. — Thomas Merton
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of. — Michel de Montaigne
Writing a novel is an act of self-annihilation as much as self-discovery. You can kill whole appetites and flood whole depths while plumbing them, but… — Andrew O'Hagan
The secret of concentration is the secret of self-discovery. You reach inside yourself to discover your personal resources, and what it takes to match them… — Arnold Palmer
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. — Anna Quindlen
There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud. — Carol Shields
If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet. — Neil Simon
Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. — Wallace Stevens
People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one… — Thomas Szasz
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not… — Henry David Thoreau
Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves. — Henry David Thoreau
All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why. — James Thurber
Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate. — J.R.R. Tolkien
In search of my mother's garden, I found my own. — Alice Walker
Personal transformation can and does have global effects. As we go, so goes the world, for the world is us. The revolution that will save… — Marianne Williamson
Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss… — William Butler Yeats

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