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Quotes About Self-discovery

As human beings we are made to surpass ourselves and are truly ourselves only when transcending ourselves.
~ Huston Smith
If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else's; the whole point is to find your own way.
~ Joseph Campbell
I'm glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again.
~ Mark Twain
It's just like magic. When you live by yourself, all your annoying habits are gone!.
~ Merrill Markoe
Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some. Tell me, why you want to lay there, revel in your abandon?
~ Tom Petty
We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.
~ Douglas Coupland
The past can't hurt you anymore. Not unless you let it. They made you into a victim, Evey. They made you into a statistic. But, that's not the real you. That's not who you are inside.
~ Alan Moore, V for Vendetta
Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.
~ Neil Gaiman, Coraline
I didn't really know what I wanted to do, but I knew the woman I wanted to become.
~ Diane von Furstenberg
You are you. Now, isn't that unpleasant?
~ Dr. Seuss
I want to give you the depth and the strength which is yours... the original you.
~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi
Without realizing who you are, happiness cannot come to you.
~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi
We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
When we allow ourselves to become vulnerable, to take chances, and to risk our pride, that is when we find our own glory.
~ Richard J. Corman
When you first awaken or before drifting off to sleep, quiet your mind, lift up your heart, muse, mull over, make discoveries. Consider, conceive, create, connect, concede that it all starts within.
~ Sarah Ban Breathnach
If you give your Self a chance, your Self will give you all the chances.
~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi
It is our commitment to wholeness that matters, the willingness to unfold in every deep aspect of our being.
~ Jack Kornfield
What is truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is what the 'voice within' tells you.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
You cannot know, and become, that which you are, in the absence of that which you are not, as I have already explained to you.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Cultivate the technique of seeing all problems as opportunities. Opportunities to...be, and decide, Who You Really Are.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
You have to understand your own personal DNA. Don't do things because I do them or Steve Jobs or Mark Cuban tried it. You need to know your personal brand and stay true to it.
~ Gary Vaynerchuk
But everything had changed, and I was becoming more and more of who I really was, and less of this person I had thought I wanted to be.
~ Perry Moore
We both have a lot of growing-up to do... A lot of the world to see & figure out on our own." -- Leo
~ Emily Giffin
Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different..." from Two or Three Things i Know For Sure
~ Dorothy Allison