Quotes About Self-discovery

All you need is already within you, only you must approach your self with reverence and love. Self-condemnation and self-distrust are grievous errors. Your constant flight from pain and search for pleasure is a sign of love you bear for your self, all I plead with you is this: make love of your self perfect. Deny yourself nothing -- glue your self infinity and eternity and discover that you do not need them; you are beyond.

All you need is already within you, only you must approach your self with reverence and love. Self-condemnation and self-disgust are grievous errors. Your constant flight from pain and search for pleasure is a sign of love you bear for your self, all I plead with you is this: make love of your self perfect. Deny your self nothing--give yourself infinity and eternity and discover that you do not need them; you are beyond.

You have put so much energy into building a prison for yourself. Now spend as much on demolishing it. In fact, demolition is easy, for the false dissolves when it is discovered.

In the stillness of the mind, I saw myself as I am: unbound.

Study the prison you have inadvertently built around yourself.

You'll never decide what you want until you've decided who you are.

imagination is a form of flagellation if a sensitive child lets it run wild ...

But you grew out of it." "Grew? No. I burned it all down, drank myself into a stupor, pissed off everyone I knew." They think about that for a moment, how sometimes the only way to learn not to play with fire is to go up in flames.

He just needed to hear his voice from time to time to remind himself that he was real.

Be yourself. Be true to that, to your heart. Patience. See what happens if you step back instead of bounding forward.

If I was lonely, if I was afraid of being alone, then why abandon myself? Why run to someone else looking to give myself the thing that only I could give? I wanted to escape myself because I felt empty, and the emptiness frightened me. But obviously, I was empty because I was always running out, running away. The only way to fill the emptiness was to remain, to take up residence in myself.

There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.

You never do find out what makes you tick, and after a while it's unimportant.

You could be the first nation to tell your children to ask themselves what work in the world would most become their souls and to prepare to do it.

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

Name yourself in your heart and know who you are.

If you want sense, you'll have to make it yourself.

How can a person have a sense of something if he does not have the germ of it within himself. What I am to understand must develop organically within me--and what I seem to learn is only nourishment--stimulation of the organism.

Through my tears I found god in myself and I loved her fiercely

And this is for Colored girls who have considered suicide, but are moving to the ends of their own rainbows.

i found god in myself & i loved her/ i loved her fiercely

The road to self-belief is potholed.

You can learn to follow the inner self, the inner physician that tells you where to go. Healing is simply attempting to do more of those things that bring joy and fewer of those things that bring pain.

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