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Quotes About Self-discovery

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
~ Carl Jung
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
~ Joseph Campbell
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
~ Steve Jobs
Everyone and everything that shows up in our life is a reflection of something that is happening inside of us.
~ Alan Cohen
There is more to us than we know. If we can be made to see it, perhaps for the rest of our lives we will be unwilling to settle for less.
~ Kurt Hahn
When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you'll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you'll eat yourself.
~ Anton Chekhov
Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Let us choose for ourselves our path in life, and let us try to strew that path with flowers.
~ Emilie du Chatelet
There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's books and write your own.
~ Albert Einstein
The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.
~ e. e. cummings
Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.
~ Erich Fromm
I know I was born and I know that I'll die... The in between is mine. I Am Mine
~ Eddie Vedder
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
~ Joseph Campbell
I looked in temples churches and mosques. But I found the Divine within my heart.
~ Rumi
They say the two most important days in a person's life were the day you were born and the day you discover why you were born.
~ Viola Davis
When you are introduced to the clarity inside of you, to the simplicity inside of you, to that beauty inside of you, the journey of life begins.
~ Prem Rawat
A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others.
~ Chin-Ning Chu
We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves.
~ Patti Smith
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
~ Robert Schuller
In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.
~ John Grisham
Don't let your character change color with your environment. Find out who you are and let it stay it's true color.
~ Rachel Scott
You live alone, creating your life as you go.
~ Edie Sedgwick
Whatever the circumstances of your life, the understanding of type can make your perceptions clearer, your judgements sounder, and your life closer to your heart's desire
~ Isabel Briggs Myers
Guitar is the best form of self-expression I know. Everything else, and I'm just sort of tripping around, trying to figure my way through life.
~ Slash