Quotes About Self-discovery

Going into my 20s, I was uncertain, trying to figure out what my relationship to acting is.

I had never understood what people meant when they said they'd rather be alone if they couldn't be in the right relationship. Now I got it.

You will not be the same person coming out of a relationship as you were going into it.

Intimacy starts with a relationship with yourself, an understanding of who you are.

Everyone must come out of his Exile in his own way.

It's not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it's when you realize that you don't need any aid.

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Conventional names define a person's past: ancestry, ethnicity, nationality, religion. I am not who I was ten years ago and certainly not who I will be in twenty years

Know your religion, know who you are and don't be ashamed.

When a man is born...there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.

Religion has only one answer and that answer is meditation. And meditation means how to empty yourself.

Now, with God's help, I shall become myself.

Most people we observe who practice self-discovery just get caught up in a new description, a new "ism", a new religion, a new god. But nothing changes.

If you bring forth what is within you what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you what you do not bring forth will destroy you.

The day I met Islam, I found a power within myself that no man could destroy or take away from me.

The problem with this generation is they are so quick to define who they are in the process of searching. It is their need for immediate acceptance that keeps them from exploring further.

You is not you until you see the path of your faith.

Overcoming difficulties leads to courage, self-respect, and knowing yourself.

All the wonders you seek are within yourself.

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.

If I am not I, who will be?

Know yourself. Feel yourself. Love yourself. Respect yourself. Take good care of yourself. You are your most precious possession on Earth.

You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder.