Quotes About Self-discovery

Often the greatest poverty comes when we fail to realize what we have, just as the greatest deception comes when we do not know who we are.

You're strong and that helped you, but this doesn't have to define you. You are a young woman with your whole life ahead of you. Don't confuse what you had to do to survive with who you are.

I've made my mistakes and taken my licks and I still think a quiet life is overrated.

I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself.

Don't worry about society's conditioning and the labels that are put on you by external forces. Hold onto your true self.

Being part of a patriarchal society, it kind of helped me figure out what I was all about.

Solitude is the one place where we can gain freedom from the forces of society that will otherwise relentlessly mold us. Solitude requires relentless perseverance.

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I see the psychedelic experience as a birthright, and we can't have a free society until people are free to explore their own mind.

The greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.

Being alone in our present society raises an important question about identity and well-being.

Society does not exist for itself, but for the individual; and man goes into it, not to lose, but to find himself.

Outside of society, if you're looking that's where you'll find me.

Given the conditions under which you're a young person in this society, many things would be at least as important to you as your sexuality.

Life is too short to waste being a productive member of society.

Often I didn't think I was cut out for the way the world is, being born into a common culture and system I would never choose for myself.

What a sad thing I thought-- to live in a world so concerned with the lives of others, we forget to live our own.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

Whoever knows himself knows God.

Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.

The answer lies within ourselves. If we can't find peace and happiness there, it's not going to come from the outside.

To live by grace means to acknowledge my whole life story, the light side and the dark. In admitting my shadow side I learn who I am and what God's grace means.

If you want to do a certain thing, you first have to be a certain person. Once you become that certain person, you will not care anymore about doing that certain thing.