Self Discovery Quotes

274 Self Discovery quotes by 196 unique authors

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. — Aristotle
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. — Unknown Author
I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief. — Gerry Spence
It takes courage...to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest… — Marianne Williamson
We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Helped are those who are content to be themselves; they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be constant. — Alice Walker
It goes a long way back, some twenty years. All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to… — Ralph Ellison
Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves. — Robert Frost
And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself? — Unknown Author
What you seek is seeking you. — Unknown Author
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves. — Germaine Greer
To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self.... And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of… — Soren Kierkegaard
You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary! — Gertrude Stein
I've learned... . That being kind is more important than being right. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
When I step out on stage in front of thousands of people, I don't feel that I'm being brave. It can take much more courage… — Michael Jackson
Rules for Self Discovery: 1. What we want most; 2. What we think about most; 3. How we use our money; 4. What we do… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
...one of the worst things about being a parent, for me, is the self-discovery, the being face to face with one's secret insanity and brokenness… — Anne Lamott
To find out what is truly individual in ourselves, profound reflection is needed; and suddenly we realize how uncommonly difficult the discovery of individuality is. — Carl Jung
Our self discoveries make us each a microcosm of the larger pattern of history. The inertia of introspection leads toward recollection, for only through memory… — Terence McKenna
Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized. — Rajneesh

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