Quotes About Self-discovery

If we never take a risk, we'll never know the parts of ourselves that would have emerged if we had.

The only way to stay sane is to go a little crazy.

It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.

You save yourself or you remain unsaved.

There is no paycheck that can equal the feeling of contentment that comes from being the person you are meant to be.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Surprise yourself every day with your own courage.

Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.

The goal is to become the unique, awesome, never to be repeated human being that we were called to be.

When we finally give up the struggle to find fulfillment "out there," we have nowhere to go but within. It is at this moment of total surrender that a new light begins to dawn.

Seek not outside yourself, Heaven is within.

Instead of me having a breakdown, I'm focusing on me having a breakthrough.

What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are.

Your heart is pure, your soul is free. Be on your way, don't wait for me.

If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.

Once I was a prisoner lost inside myself with the world surrounding me, wandering through the misery, but now I am free. Free to love, free to laugh, free to soar, free to shine, free to give.

To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

There is nothing to do, just be. Do nothing. Be. No climbing mountains and sitting in caves. I do not even say "be yourself" since you do not know yourself. Just be.

What we are here to do is to meet and become the person we are.

In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.

When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a colouring book, with the inside not yet completed.

The most important thing is to hold on, hold out, for your creative life, for your solitude, for your time to be and do, for your very life.

Let each man take the path according to his capacity, understanding and temperament. His true guru will meet him along that path.