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Quotes About Self-discovery

To know the whole world is nothing when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.
~ Rajneesh
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
~ Erich Fromm
You don't learn about yourself by being alone, you learn about yourself from other people.
~ Lev Grossman
The purpose of life is to know yourself, create yourself, experience yourself as Who You Really Are. There is no other reason to do anything.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
I'll never make any resolutions. Drop all resolutions! Let life be a natural spontaneity. The only golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
~ Rajneesh
If you are drawn to the left hand path, it's usually because you've had some kind of life experience that has shocked you, awakened you.
~ Nikolas Schreck
The secret is to learn to sit at the feet of your own life and be taught by it.
~ Polly Berrien Berends
You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
~ Anais Nin
Sometimes life isn't about who you were or are, but it's about who you are becoming.
~ Barbara Sher
I didn't think it was my job to accept what everyone said I was and who I should be.
~ Benjamin Alire Saenz
...decide for yourself what makes you truly happy and then organize your life around it. Write down your goals and make plans to achieve them.
~ Brian Tracy
Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life.
~ Eckhart Tolle
The happiest time of anyone's life is just after the first divorce.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
I don't know who I am but you know, life is for learning.
~ Joni Mitchell
Living a life of service, rather than one of expression, is a serious mistake, because expressing who we really are is the greatest service we can perform.
~ Kurt Hanks
I want roles that challenge people to question where they are in life.
~ Maggie Gyllenhaal
Being single can pave the way for new opportunities.
~ Selena Gomez
There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys: they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked the sum out for themselves.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact — everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you.
~ Steve Jobs
Our real journey in life is interior.
~ Thomas Merton
The reason of my life is not to be the most beautiful woman in the world.
~ Isabella Rossellini
A journey may be long or short, but it must start at the very spot one finds oneself.
~ Jim Stovall
Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our center and have to find it again.
~ Anais Nin
Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
~ John Berger