Self Discovery Quotes

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  • We read books to find out who we are.

    Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.31, Ultramarine Publishing
  • There is a legend that when God was equipping man for his long life journey of exploration, the attendant good angel was about to add the gift of contentment and complete satisfaction. The Creator stayed his hand and said, 'No, if you bestow that upon him you will rob him forever of all joy of self-discovery.'

    Angel   Journey   Men  
    Orison Swett Marden (1917). “How to Get what You Want”
  • Self discovery doesn't not seek to bring you answers about your personal life or philosophically comfort you about life and death. What it does is bring you into reality as perception itself.

  • Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

    Love   Men   Keys  
  • Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.

    Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Commentaries on Living 1”, p.262, M-y books ltd
  • Endurance is frequently a form of indecision.

  • What is it that is done to our children that their puberty should deform them? They have the joy of movement; they have an enterprising curiosity; they are ready for sensible self-denial; they dream ahead, and they have a faithful memory, and, above all, great compassion... The well-meaning educator who flatters and humours the young not only does a disservice to the community, but also damages the individual by depriving him of the opportunities of self-discovery.

    "Kurt Hahn: A Life Span in Education and Politics". Book by Robert Birley, §1, p. 8, 1966.
  • Once you've started down that road to self-discovery, no matter how treacherous the path before you, you can't turn back. The universe doesn't allow it.

    Discovery   Self   Matter  
    Lisa Unger (2010). “Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You”, p.332, Crown
  • Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.

    Hugh Prather (2009). “Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person”, p.41, Bantam
  • Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?

    Real   Knowing   People  
  • You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!

    Gertrude Stein (2013). “Everybody's Autobiography”, p.42, Vintage
  • You don't have to meditate. You don't have to practice self-discovery and Buddhism. You should only practice self-discovery if you really have had it with the human world.

  • We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.

    Eye   Glimpse   Self Help  
    Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.79, BookBaby
  • If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions.

    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1964). “Goethe : [selected Verse]”
  • Emotional turmoil can be a powerful catalyst to reconnect us with our divine nature. It propels us into a journey of self discovery and urges us to learn how to love and accept our entire being.

    Debbie Ford (2009). “Spiritual Divorce: Divorce as a Catalyst for an Extraordinary Life”, p.3, Harper Collins
  • We get closer to God as we get more intimately and understandingly acquainted with the things He has created. I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for one's self.

    Discovery   Self   Knows  
  • Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

    Life   Men   Progress  
    Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.65, Wordsworth Editions
  • The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.

  • 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 tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naive. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself. But first I had to discover that I am an invisible man!

    Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.40, Vintage
  • I don't dictate particular styles of dress. I do teach classes in self discovery.

  • Women have been denied access to advanced methods of self discovery throughout the ages.

    Women   Discovery   Self  
  • I embrace emerging experience, I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly.

    William Stafford, Paul Merchant, Vincent Wixon (1998). “Crossing unmarked snow: further views on the writer's vocation”, Univ of Michigan Pr
  • It is my experience that if a person practices self discovery with intent, they will be successful. Success is an outer sign that they are channeling energy correctly.

  • Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation itself brings about certain changes in his inner processes. He begins to understand that self-observation is an instrument of self-change, a means of awakening.

    Spiritual   Mean   Men  
  • Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason, not that you have no reason for living.

    Mean   Might   Reason  
    Tom O'Connor, Ahmed González-Núñez (1987). “Living With AIDS: Reaching Out”, Corwin Pub
  • The only difference between us is that I am aware of my natural state, while you are bemused.... We discover it by being earnest, by searching, enquiring, questioning daily and hourly, by giving one's life to this discovery.

  • An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.

    Confidence   Pain   Real  
  • Our brain comes hard-wired with an urge to play, one that hurls us into sociability. A child's play both demands and creates its own safe space, one in which she can confront threats, fears, and dangers, but always come through whole. Play offers a child a natural way to manage feared separations or abandonment, rendering them instead opportunities for mastery and self-discovery.

  • Observe all men, thyself most.

    Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.56, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • You need to search your awareness and consider the limitless possibilities of existence in all things and not be so narrow-minded in your self-discovery.

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