Quotes About Self-discovery

The downside of venturing into uncharted waters is not at all as disastrous as not leaving the shore, and waiting endlessly for your boat to arrive for your rescue. Take a chance, and leap into unknown waters to reinvent your potental and strengthen your self.

To be in sync with the real world, we must grow inside out, and our only true guide during our growth is our own mind guiding us on the path to enlightenment.

You would think it strange of two people who conversed every day for forty or fifty years, but all this while did not know one another; yet this is the case between us and our souls; we live a long time in this world but are strangers to ourselves.

You need to find yourself a new hero." - Skulduggery Pleasant.

You're seventeen. You're supposed to be dealing with school and hormones and dim-witted parents. You're supposed to be finding out who you are as a person." "But I already know who I am," Valkyrie said. "I'm a world-breaker.

If you can't stand to be alone with your thoughts, maybe there's something wrong with your thoughts.

I'm no hero," said Scapegrace. "I'm just a man, who used to be a woman, who used to be a man. My name is Vaurien Scapegrace, and I have come here to—

So you've finally chosen a name." "Yes. And I'm leaving. Right now." "Maybe you stand some chance after all. Before you go, will you do me the honour of introducing yourself?" "Of course," Stephanie said right before she walked out of the apartment. "My name is Valkyrie Cain.

You haven't trained in magic or combat, but you're not weak. Serpine underestimates you. Everyone underestimates you. You're stronger than they know. You're stronger than you know." "I wish you were right." "Of course I'm right. I'm me.

And look at me now. Seriously. Look at what all that action and adventure has done to me. I'm a frickin' basket case. - Valkyrie

Your traumas have made you who you are, but they don't define you. You can live with them, I have no doubt.

Yes, well, I wasn't always who I am now. No one ever is. I've spent my entire lifetime becoming who I am.

That's the thing about redemption," said Skulduggery. "If you're looking for it, the chances are you'll never find it.

No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it.

Competing is exciting and winning is exhilarating, but the true prize will always be the self-knowledge and understanding that you have gained along the way.

Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.

All types of knowledge, ultimately mean self knowledge.

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

I don't write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know.

It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.

Learn to know yourself... to search realistically and regularly the processes of your own mind and feelings.

A person must earn enlightenment, Eragon. It is not handed down to you by others, regardless of how revered they be.

I see knowledge of self. I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

You know that you know nothing. Find out that knowledge.