Quotes About Self-discovery

Before you find out who you are, you have to figure out who you aren't.

Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.

We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who we were born to be.

...never try to follow another's path for that is his way, not yours. When that path is found, you have nothing to do but fold your arms and the tide will carry you to freedom.

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.

Make your own dream .I can't wake you up. You can wake you up. I can't cure you. You can cure you.

We're not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.

You've got to be willing to lose everything to gain yourself.

When you feel the desire for power, you should stay in solitude for some time

Those who look outside, dream. Those who look inside, awaken.

You can know all there is to know about life and mankind, but what do you really know about yourself?

When you quit drinking you stop waiting.

I think any time people behave in a way that's truly them, then they'll never fail. You get in trouble when you try to copy others.

I challenge every one of you who can hear me to rise to the divinity within you. Do we really realize what it means to be a child of God, to have within us something of the divine nature?

In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing.

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

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.

Everyone must become their own person, however frightful that may be.

Every runner is an experiment of one.

Puberty was very vague. I literally locked myself in a room and played guitar.

If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as individuals.

The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and, like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it.

I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart.

It is so liberating to really know what I want, what truly makes me happy, what I will not tolerate. I have learned that it is no one else's job to take care of me but me.