Quotes About Self-discovery

You can't let the outside pressures and other people squeeze you into becoming something that you're not.

To illustrate: Everybody in the world knows the word "God," but there are few people in the world who know God. For most of us God has remained a word, a term, a power outside the self; God, Itself, has not become a living reality except to those few people who are known as mystics.

And from those ancestors, you will find a greatness buried deep within yourself that you did not even know existed." "You think?" Skah asked, breathlessly. "I know," said the croma.

When I was just a little girl I asked my mummy, "what should I be?" "Fuck should," she said.

Whenever a soul is brutalized, cleansing and healing must happen. But you are strong, Quinn. You learn from the past and the present, but you do not let it dictate your future. You let it guide you, inspire you and instruct you only.

Maybe he wasn't the balloon who'd been cut loose, but the one who'd untied himself from the rail.

We must learn to accept ourselves in the painful experiment of living. We must embrace the spiritual adventure of becoming human, moving through the many stages that lie between birth and death.

Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement.

La clase de filosofía que se elige depende de la clase de hombre que se es.

It's not so much what happens in those fifteen minutes—Rachel has come to feel that "you're planting seeds during the meditation, [and] it flowers spontaneously during your day, and your life.

Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

How can you come to know yourself Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.

Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

Todo nos hace falta cuando nos faltamos a nosotros mismos

This life is a stellar opportunity to realize what you are, to bring what you first are into manifestation.

There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.

When we are born, when we enter this world, it is as if we signed a pact for the rest of our life, but a day may come when we will ask ourselves Who signed this on my behalf?

I think it's important to live life with a knowledge of its mystery, and of your own mystery.

Our life evokes our character and you find out more about yourself as you go on.

Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them.

Basic fact of life: no matter how far you run, you always take yourself with you.