Quotes About Self-discovery

Learn what you are and be such.

Become such as you are, having learned what that is.

Pamela realizes for the first time in her life that she hadn't made the wrong choice at all. Nor had she made the right choice. She had simply made a choice. And somewhere along the way, she had lost the courage to live by it.

The reason why we are disenchanted with ourselves is because we entertain in the depths of our psyche a kind of vision-an anticipated vision of what we could be if we would be what we might be.

if the "Know thyself" of the oracle were an easy thing for every man, it would not be held to be a divine injunction.

I'm convinced that business success in the future starts with the question, What should I do with my life? Yes, that's right.... People don't succeed by migrating to a "hot" industry (one word: dotcom) or by adopting a particular career-guiding mantra (remember "horizontal careers"?). They thrive by focusing on the question of who they really are--and connecting that to work that they truly love (and, in so doing, unleashing a productive and creative power that they never imagined).

The library in summer is the most wonderful thing because there you get books on any subject and read them each for only as long as they hold your interest, abandoning any that don't, halfway or a quarter of the way through if you like, and store up all that knowledge in the happy corners of your mind for your own self and not to show off how much you know or spit it back at your teacher on a test paper.

I left parts of myself some places and found others unexpectedly. New people appeared on the scene and others disappeared before I had a chance to say goodbye. All kinds of ordinary people gave their whole hearts to things you wouldn't think you could give your heart to.

There were books about how to be gay; he'd seen them in stores and libraries. Some of them even had diagrams. But there weren't any diagrams about how to fall in love with your best friend and not fuck everything up.

I don't know what I want sometimes, But I know that I want to know what I want. I know that once I know what I want I will be able to get it. Of course, I may not want what I get when I get it... But, at least I'll know I don't want that! Then, I can move on to something else I don't know if I want. That's progress!

Tanpa mempelajari bahasa sendiri pun orang takkan mengenal bangsanya sendiri

Han, memang bukan sesuatu yang baru Jalan setapak setiap orang dalam mencari tempat ditengah-tengah dunia dan masyarakatnya, untuk menjadi diri sendiri, melelahkan dan membosankan untuk diikuti. Lebih membosankan adalah mengamati yang tidak membutuhkan sesuatu jalan, menjangkarkan akar tunggang pada bumi dan tumbuh pada pohon.

Barang siapa tidak tahu kekuatan dirinya, tidak tahu kelemahan dirinya. Barang siapa tidak tahu kedua-duanya, dia pusing dalam ketidaktahuannya.

Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you.

That peace which is within us, we must experience it. And if we are searching for peace outside we will never find the peace within.

How far do you have to travel to find yourself? Do you have to go anywhere to find you? Where do you think you have to go? To some holy place to find yourself? Wherever you are, you are. And all you have to know, is to get to know yourself. That is so simple.

In the spiritual life every person is his or her own discoverer, and you need not grieve if your discoveries are not believed in by others. It is your business to push on find more and increase individual happiness

the sea's only gifts are harsh blows and, occasionally, the chance to feel strong. Now, I don't know much about the sea, but I do know that that's the way it is here. And I also know how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong but to feel strong, to measure yourself at least once, to find yourself at least once in the most ancient of human conditions, facing blind, deaf stone alone, with nothing to help you but your own hands and your own head...

how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong but to feel strong, to measure yourself at least once, to find yourself at least once...

Our consciousness is programmed. We see things a certain way from a young age - we're programmed to keep doing them that way. Then you have to spend adulthood learning how to overcome it, to read out the programs. Try to create. I want to tell people to create. Just start by creating your day. Then create your life.

lord I have problem... it is me.

There is alienation that must happen in the mind for serenity to thrive and flourish.

One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

Each deep breath taken during your Yoga Practice takes you closer to your own self.