Quotes About Self-discovery

The words "douche" and "bag" have never coupled as passionately as they did in the person of my thirteen-year-old self.

But how do you start getting out of your room? I was reading a poem by my idol, Wallace Stevens, in which he said, "The self is a cloister of remembered sounds." My first response was, Yesss! How did he know that? It's like he's reading my mind.

At birth, each of us is graced with the simple job of remembering, understanding, and living the essence of who we are.

We have become a society of fakes, so intent copying the famous that we cannot figure out who we are.

As they become aware of how much time and energy they spend trying to garner approval, they can begin living an inside-out kind of life. This means, rather than focusing outward for acceptance and approval, they turn inward. In doing so, they can begin asking themselves the important questions: "What do I want," "What feels right to me," "What would make me happy?

Not the free individual but the lost individual; not Independence but isolation; not self-discovery but self-obsession; not the conquer but to be conquered; these are major states of mind in contemporary imaginative literature.

I am billionaire bold bright omnipotent lively determined to go within to win opening my omnific eyes to realize wisdom innovation naturalizes… My cascading flow of financial love lavishly streams gold bars as I realize gold is intrinsic wealth as my intuitive imagination is my intrinsic innovations…

The secret of sound education is to get each pupil to learn for himself, instead of instructing him by driving knowledge into him on a stereotyped system.

Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be.

Know thyself, especially thyself after a couple of drinks.

Know thyself, or at least keep renewing the acquaintance.

Looking back, you realize that a very special person passed briefly through your life, and that person was you. It is not too late to become that person again.

In the end you don't so much find yourself as you find someone who knows who you are.

Most often, walking alone with my shadow is how I find my answer, the result of gathering together all agreeable parties.

Better you don't search for who you are until you know who it is you want to find.

The clash between child and adult is never so stubborn as when the child within us confronts the adult in our child.

Anything we tell our kids about life is a placemarker until they figure it out for themselves.

There are people who live their whole lives on the default settings, never realizing you can customize.

Every day I go forth to seek my identity, feeling greatly blessed by the things I don't find it in.

The trick to liking who you are is not to hate too much the person it turned out you weren't.

All your life you pretend to be someone else, and it turns out that you were someone else pretending to be you.

Truth is within ourselves.

To do good thing in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life.

When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something.