Quotes About Self-discovery

It's so important to consider this question: What do I desire?

My desire to fight comes from within... it's a personal journey of accomplishment, not meant to be judges or for me to judge others.

If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.

To be authentic is literally to be your own author... to discover your own native energies and desires, and then to find your own way of acting on them.

He that discovers himself, till he hath made himself master of his desires, lays himself open to his own ruin, and makes himself prisoner to his own tongue.

Only by accepting our desires can we have an idea of who we are.

I have no desire to walk on water," said Siddhartha. "Let the old shamans satisfy themselves with such skills".

All people have the common desire to be elevated in honour, but all people have something still more elevated in themselves without knowing it.

And deep in my heart. The answer, it was in me. And I made up my mind. To define my own destiny

The higher purpose of # astrology is not to try to change one's destiny, but to fulfill it through growing in awareness

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

From a yogic perspective, stillness, coupled with expanded awareness, is by far the most powerful medium by which you can affect your destiny.

Some never get started on their destiny course because they cannot humble themselves to learn, grow, and change.

That which you do not bring to consciousness comes to you as your Fate, that which you do bring to consciousness, whether it was what you thought you wanted or not, is your destiny.

I had not yet learned that we make our own destiny, it springs from within us. It is not the outward events but what we allow ourselves to make of them that count.

Be who you are, said the Duchess to Alice, or, if you would like it put more simply, never try to be what you might have been or could have been other than what you should have been.

The challenge is to find our destiny in exactly what we are refusing to engage in.

The boy told himself that, on the way toward realizing his own destiny, he had learned all he needed to know, and had experienced everything he might have dreamed of.

I now believe that bêtes noires usually attack because we're thwarting our own destinies. Calming the beast turns us toward our best lives.

I believe in letting each person find what they need and not getting involved with their destiny.

The river was always there inside of me, but I was very shy. I could see that this was my path. I felt destiny in my own music.

How many roads must a man walk down Before you call him a man?

I had always functioned with dignity, wanting to appear intelligent, macho, never vulnerable or insecure. But now I realize that... a part of these comic characters is a fundamental part of me too.

Everything has changed now. The world has changed. It surprises me to be on the forefront. I've lost all dignity! I give interviews! I make movies! I'm amazed at myself.