Quotes About Self-discovery

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting

Life is a plain canvas where you paint your own story, choosing your own characters, the shades and the landscape.

Happiness is knowing who you are and knowing what you want out of life.

Don't force yourself to be someone because you never know, you may have better abilities than them. Just let them inspire you and do it without being that person.

Who you are, who you were, and who you will become are 3 completely different people.

Stop listening to what comes from the outside. Start listening to what comes from within.

Zen is not effort. Effort is tension, effort is work, effort is to achieve something. Zen is not something to achieve. You are already that. Just relax, relax so deeply that you become a revelation to yourself.

One has to become absolutely responsible for oneself, and then one can understand the mind. If you go on depending on others, your very dependence will not allow you to understand who you are.

When you're looking for someone, you're looking for some aspect of yourself, even if you don't know it. What we're searching for is what we lack.

Don't you just LOVE rumors, they tell you so many awesome things you didn't even know about yourself!

Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.

You shouldn't give up. Fight for yourself and who you are. You've got to go through the worst times in life to get the best.

I do not find my Faith in others, in science, the stars, the heavens; I find it, within myself.

If you are determined to succeed you will, if you are determined to fail you will, it is only through determination that we began to see our true selves.

Do what you love, be what you want to be and not what others want you to be, Be you.

Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Never try to do anything that is outside of who you are. A forced smile is a sign of what feels wrong in your heart, so recognize it when it happens. Living a lie will reduce you to one.

Those who are not aware of the real and limitless resources lying dormant within human life are deprived, and this self-deprivation is the cause of suffering.

When I look back on my life, I see pain, mistakes and heart ache. When I look in the mirror, I see strength, learned lessons, and pride in myself.

Instead of pointing out the faults of others, look in the mirror, find your own faults and start to better yourself. That should keep you busy!

As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.

Between who you once were, and who you are becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place; dance to the tunes of life with great new knowledge.

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.