Quotes About Self-discovery

When you drop all your ideas, fantasies and projections about who you are and what freedom is and remain completely empty, this is freedom.

Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness.

You must accept the fact that there is no help but self-help. I cannot tell you how to gain freedom since freedom exists within you.

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.

You take everything I've made the last 16 years. I'll take my freedom.

Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.

Coercion or compulsion never brings about growth. It is freedom that accelerates evolution.

When we give way to joy, we do not feel that we have lost control, but gained freedom.

Freedom of expression is actually a way for people to know themselves better, and to understand themselves better. Because without it, you become a stranger to yourself.

There is some liberation in the freedom of being totally alone and really going for it.

When we choose to live authentically we chip away at others prisons of pretend and create an opportunity for them to walk out of darkness into freedom.

I am so happy that I didn't have children. Well, you know, because I've had freedom.

Coming to the master is coming in search of your innocence, in search of your lost childhood, in search of your originality... in search of your individuality, in search of freedom.

Freedom, peace, and inner joy will continue to elude us until we become aware of our real truth, without hiding ourselves or being ashamed of what we are.

Your relationship to food, no matter how conflicted, is the doorway to freedom.

The place where I had freedom most was when I painted. I was completely and utterly myself.

The freedom we are looking for is the freedom to be ourselves, to express ourselves.

We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.

Books were my pass to personal freedom.

Religion can be condensed in a single phrase: total freedom to be oneself.

The journey to freedom is paved by the substance of our character.

…find freedom, aliveness, and power not from what contains, locates, or protects us, but from what dissolves, reveals, and expands us.

Speaking for myself, my very integrity as a human being needs to include my freedom to explore who I am both spiritually and sexually. Not just to explore - but to practice.

There has always been a part of me that saw wilderness and risk-taking as the path to freedom.