Quotes About Self-discovery

To my mind, voyaging through wildernesses, be they full of woods or waves, is essential to the growth and maturity of the human spirit. It is in the wilderness that you really learn who you are. It is in facing the challenges of the wilderness that the thickness of your wallet becomes irrelevant and your capabilities become the truer measure of your value.

What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others. —Confucius

Most people live in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness

When doing what we most love transforms us into the best possible version of ourselves and that version hints at even greater future possibilities, the urge to explore those possibilities becomes feverish compulsion.

Most of us arrive in our fifties feeling that the cage has gotten smaller. What's actually shrunk is our mindset. We're in a prison of our own making. Once we discover we can keep on learning later in life, that mindset shifts. The cage vanishes. This changes everything.

Sometimes I feel that I am slowly erasing muself, in order for someone else to appear, the one I long for, who will not resemble me.

was] a stranger to himself.

What is enlightenment? In a 1784 essay with that question as its title, Immanuel Kant answered that it consists of "humankind's emergence from its self-incurred immaturity," its "lazy and cowardly" submission to the "dogmas and formulas" of religious or political authority.

You need a mind open to possibility, conditioned to love the creative spirit we all have inside ourselves.

I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

I love to see how far you're able to go, both in skills but also emotionally how far I can push myself.

We never get to the bottom of ourselves on our own. We discover who we are face to face and side by side with others in work, love and learning.

Parents are supposed to give the child back to herself with love. If they've got duct tape over their eyes because of narcissism, it doesn't happen.

I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water.

You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself.

There is another interesting paradox here: by immersing ourselves in what we love, we find ourselves. We do not lose ourselves. One does not lose one's identity by falling in love.

Stop the mental chatter about what's wrong and what's not complete. There is a presence of Love that is seeking to express itself through you.

Love so that you may actually be what you innately are.

The amazing thing about love is that it is the best way to get to know ourselves.

If I'd understood back then that a guy could be in love with another one, it would have happened. But I didn't come to that realization for a few more years and then it was too late for Jimmy and me.

I think you have to love yourself before you fall in love. I'm still learning to love myself.

I'd really love to meet the guy I'm supposed to be. I'd hire him in a second.

Don't force anything. Find what you love and stick with it.