Quotes About Self-discovery

On the path to truth, at every step, you set your foot down on your own heart.

I do not apologise for baring my soul (though I did not intend to)

Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.

You transcend your own self through acting out someone else's life.

Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.

Vivete la vostra vita, quella che meglio vi corrisponde senza diventare preda dei luoghi comuni legati al successo. Siate voi stessi, profondamente, e sarete felici. E' questo il fine ultimo della vita. Otterrete una soddisfazione che nessuno potrà rubarvi.

Modern world history began with the discovery of the Self and attained its summit in the eventual awareness of the Absolute Self.

Zazen should never become a means of making yourself feel good nor should it be a tranquilizer to settle excitement and wild thoughts. What is of primary importance is what the ancients called "no gaining and no merit." Indeed, zazen consists in awakening us to our own essence so as to secure and express our true selves in our everyday conduct.

I am a woman in the process; Im just trying to be like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience and learn from it. Life is never dull.

If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.

All these years I've been feeling like I was growing into myself. Finally, I feel grown.

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.

Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner's manual your creator gave you and destroying your design.

You get to know who you really are in a crisis.

I can make whatever choices I want in my life, and I will live with the consequences of those choices. But if I want to live a life close to my deepest desires, I have to risk knowing who I really am and have always been. Knowing this, then I can choose.

A wound not fully felt consumes from the inside. We must run very hard if we want to stay one step ahead of this pain. Exhausted, we try to bury it with drugs, alcohol, overwork, television, physical activity. We are a very creative species—we can use just about anything to anesthetize ourselves. But in doing so, we also remove ourselves from feeling the joy.

But often we have inherited someone else's view of who we are or who we should be. And sometimes, although we may ourselves hold these values, their dominance in our lives in a particular form does not allow us to live out other aspects of what we love and who we are. The deepest desires of the soul are rarely concerned with the practical details of mortgage payments, pension plans, prior commitments, past honours, or others' opinions.

Quiero saber si puedes decepcionar a otra persona para ser fiel a ti mismo; si podrías soportar la acusación de traición y no traicionar a tu propia alma...

This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment, it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

Don't you hate it when somebody knows you better than you know yourself?

A hero is one who wants to be himself .

Our life-purpose therefore comes from two sources at once—who we are created to be and who we are called to be. Not

In other words, we are never freer than when we become most ourselves, most human, most just, most excellent, and the like.