Quotes About Self-discovery

Every meditation practice is different. Some days there is an uphill road which we have to learn to climb patiently. Nevertheless, it's a practice where we learn to shine from within.

Long distance running makes me feel euphoric! The ups and downs of running path reminds me that I am strong enough to overcome the hurdles of my life. The self discovery happens on this running path.

Meditation makes us realise our true magnificence.

Meditation takes us to the most peaceful place in entire universe, which is within ourselves.

The magic lies within. To Heal yourself. To nurture yourself. To Empower and to dream. To learn and unlearn. To manifest your dreams. To thank for everything. The magic lies within.

There are so many layers of our own personality which are waiting to get unlocked. Sitting quietly in meditation practice everyday helps us to unlock these layers.

Declining from the public ways, walk in unfrequented paths.

Third Year German was the only class where she felt vaguely human. They spent the period listening to "99 Luftballons" and trying to work out the lyrics back into English. Hielten sich fur Captain Kirk. When you found German comforting, you knew you were in trouble

The price for freedom may be high, but the price that we pay for being imprisoned and cut off from the very root of our being is even higher.

I didn't know I had it in me. There's more to all of us than we realize. Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think. We're capable of so much more than we allow ourselves to believe.

You first have to find who you are. Then, you have to be it like mad.

You must make small steps into the air of being yourself. Find yourself in an empty landscape, build your character, and then spend the rest of your life demonstrating it.

Even a monotonously undeviating path of self-examination does not necessarily lead to a mountain of self-knowledge. I stumble towards my grave confused, hurt and hungry ...

Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret. Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want, but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked.

Ask yourself, if there was to be no blame, and if there was to be no praise, who would I be then?

We ask to know the will of God without guessing that his will is written into our very beings.'26

Not that her life had been unhappy, it had just not been her life at all.

I believe one has to escape oneself to discover oneself.

Me? I was lost for long time. I didn't make any friends for few years. You can say I made friends with two trees, two big trees in the middle of the school […]. I spent all my free time up in those trees. Everyone called me Tree Boy for the longest time. […]. I preferred trees to people. After that I preferred pigeons, but it was trees first.

She felt the intimate loss of who she was meant to become.

I was always alone, Doc, solitary whether I wished to be or not, ever since I could remember I wished to be lost in another, thought that somehow I could disappear into that heart of yours, take walks within your veins, wander through the bones of you. You had friends, Satan said, you loved and were loved, you must not forget that, at least not that. But did I allow anyone in, I asked Satan, and he said, Did you, does anyone?

How does the old cliché go? When every Arab girl stood in line waiting for God to hand out the desperate-to-get-married gene, I must have been somewhere else, probably lost in a book.

The cure for loneliness is solitude. —Marianne Moore, from the essay "If I Were Sixteen Today

How can she tell the difference between freedom and unburdening?