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Quotes About Self-discovery

The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.
~ Erica Jong
I had no real education because I was in and out of schools so I decided that I would completely change my look, change my image, change my name and move to New York.
~ Morgan Brittany
To get matured, you must have an education in the School of Solitude!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
'Whom are you?' he asked for he had been to night school.
~ George Ade
Many people are living in an emotional jail without realizing it.
~ Virginia Satir
Transformation occurs when existing solutions, assumed truths and past decisions are exposed as unrealistic and self-defeating.
~ Peter Shepherd
Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of self; that's why it survives
~ Anna Quindlen
When faced with emotional pain, I become still for hours, sometimes days, doing absolutely nothing. It helps me get to the truest source of my suffering.
~ Romany Malco
Emotional Freedom is a must-read for anyone who's tired of feeling frustrated, lonely, or stopped by fear.
~ Deepak Chopra
Emotional pain of any kind is a reminder to stop and look inside.
~ Gary Zukav
In order to deal with the chaos that exists in the world today, you need some grounding. That grounding best comes from knowing who you are.
~ Unknown
It's really fun to see young kids trying to find excellence in themselves.
~ Jewel
No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are.
~ Paulo Freire
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
~ e. e. cummings
[A] journey becomes a pilgrimage as we discover, day by day, that the distance traveled is less important than the experience gained.
~ Ernest Kurtz
A heart can only discover what it really wants with experience.
~ Kathy Bates
Learn from every mistake because every experience, encounter, and particularly your mistakes are there to teach you and force you into being more who you are.
~ Oprah Winfrey
The opportunity to experience yourself differently is always available.
~ Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
In my clinical experience, the greatest block to a person's development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers.
~ Rollo May
Nobody can have your psychedelic experience for you; you just have to screw your courage up and raise the cup to your lips or smoke the pipe or whatever it is and face what's in there.
~ Dennis McKenna
You cannot experience yourself as what you are until you've encountered what you are not
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Because of styles people are separated. Research your own experience, absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is essentially your own.
~ Bruce Lee
Today on planet Earth, may you experience the wonder and beauty of yourself as Abba's Child and temple of the Holy Spirit through Jesus Christ
~ Brennan Manning
I just came into my own sexuality at thirty. I don't think it's something you can deeply experience at 18 or any time before that,.
~ Eva Longoria