Quotes About Self-discovery

Love and the self are one and the discovery of either is the realization of both.

Productive work, love and thought are possible only if a person can be, when necessary, quiet and alone. To be able to listen to oneself is the necessary condition for relating oneself to others.

Your divine mate already exists. When you get to the place in yourself that is peaceful divine love, your true mate will be revealed.

You can search high & low to find happiness on earth, yet unless you love yourself, you will never find your true belonging.

When I stripped myself completely of pressure and thoughts of sponsors and realized I only love to climb, that's the day I did it.

Finally all that is trustworthy is this immeasurable silent awareness that is the truth of who you are, that is love.

In the end, the secret to learning is so simple: Think only about whatever you love. Follow it, do it, dream about it...and it will hit you: learning was there all the time, happening by itself.

I felt that with In A Perfect World I was still kind of finding myself - not just as a musician, but also in love and in life.

If you feel incomplete, you alone must fill yourself with love in all your empty shattered spaces

Take responsibility for finding your one true love

There is something beautiful in you seeking freedom.

It happened this way: I fell in love and then, because the love was ruining everything I cared about, I had to fall out.

As I began to love myself I stopped craving for a different life, and I could see that everything that surrounded me was inviting me to grow. Today I call it 'maturity'.

Tracy turns to face me. "You got married right out of college. You're terrified of being alone. Anything you do now will be motivated by that fear. You have to stop worrying about finding love again. It will come when it comes. Get comfortable with being alone. It will empower you." "Empower me to do what?" "To be the father you want to be, the man you want to be. And then you'll be ready to make a plan.

I love Hailey and what we have works. Shes's beautiful, she's smart, she's a great mother, and she's heads above what I ever thought I could see in myself.

You're terrified of being alone. Anything you do now will be motivated by that fear. You have to stop worrying about finding love again. It will come when it comes. Get comfortable with being alone. It will empower you.

Convincing someone to stay isolated in the middle of nowhere is mostly determined by whether that someone has an affinity for being alone. I discovered the ability in myself by crawling into books when I was young, disappearing into worlds I'd never seen, reading conversations between people I would never meet, absorbing life lessons through characters overcoming odds I would most likely never face.

We feel unsatisfied until we know ourselves akin even with that greatness which made the spots on which it rested hallowed and until, by our own lives, and by converse with the thoughts they have bequeathed us, we feel that union and relationship of the spirit which we seek.

To suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause: that is Hell.

If your life is not what it could be, try telling the truth. If you cling desperately to an ideology, or wallow in nihilism, try telling the truth. If you feel weak and rejected, and desperate, and confused, try telling the truth. In Paradise, everyone speaks the truth. That is what makes it Paradise. Tell the truth. Or, at least, don't lie.

If you will not reveal yourself to others, you cannot reveal yourself to yourself. That does not only mean that you suppress who you are, although it also means that. It means that so much of what you could be will never be forced by necessity to come forward.

Strengthen the individual. Start with yourself. Take care with yourself. Define who you are. Refine your personality. Choose your destination and articulate your Being. As the great nineteenth-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche so brilliantly noted, "He whose life has a why can bear almost any how.

If the world you are seeing is not the world you want, therefore, it's time to examine your values. It's time to rid yourself of your current presuppositions. It's time to let go. It might even be time to sacrifice what you love best, so that you can become who you might become, instead of staying who you are.

we cannot invent our own values, because we cannot merely impose what we believe on our souls