Quotes About Self-discovery

As this is the simple truth - that to live is to feel oneself lost - he who accepts it has already begun to find himself.

Judge: And what is your occupation in general? Brodsky: Poet, poet-translator. Judge: And who recognized you to be a poet? Who put you in the ranks of poet? Brodsky: No one. And who put me in the ranks of humanity? Judge: Did you study it?...How to be a poet? Did you attempt to finish an insitute of higher learning...where they prepare...teach Brodsky: I did not think that it is given to one by education. Judge: By what then? Brodsky: I think that it is from God.

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

To find your own way is to follow your bliss. This involves analysis, watching yourself and seeing where real deep bliss is -- not the quick little excitement , but the real deep, life-filling bliss.

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning... a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be.

Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.

If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.

We're not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.

The Hero Path We have not even to risk the adventure alone for the heroes of all time have gone before us. The labyrinth is thoroughly known ... we have only to follow the thread of the hero path. And where we had thought to find an abomination we shall find a God. And where we had thought to slay another we shall slay ourselves. Where we had thought to travel outwards we shall come to the center of our own existence. And where we had thought to be alone we shall be with all the world.

I don't like work—no man does—but I like what is in work—the chance to find yourself. Your own reality—for yourself, not for others—what no other man can ever know.

The herbalist nodded, continuing to slowly stir the broth. "You are not the first laevvel I've known," he said. "Laevvel?" She'd never heard the word before. "Yes, from the Old Aldin laevvel bran'maur. It means 'beyond the loom of Braniel and Maurenna', in fact." He smiled and rested a hand on her head. "When the body and the true self do not match, it means. Like a girl born to a boy's body.

Be less than what you are so that you can become more." ? Joseph Delaney, The Spook's Sacrifice

We use books like mirrors, gazing into them only to discover ourselves.

There is a store house within you from which you can extract everything you need to live life glorious, joyously, and abundantly.

Many people are closed off to their own potential because they do not know about the storehouse of infinite intelligence and boundless love within themselves.

Meine Mutter, wiewohl wachsam und wiewohl Lehrerin, war niemand, der ausdrücklich Orientierung offerierte, und vielleicht ist es sogar ihr zuzuschreiben, dass ich Liebe ganz selbstverständlich mit einem in Schweigen verfallenen Haus assoziiere.

As Kennon Callahan so aptly states, "only you can grow you."6

Solitude vivifies isolation kills.

Jaykit blinked his beautiful eyes. "Does that mean you can make me see?" he mewed. "Hollykit and Lionkit can see things, I know. And I guess you and my mother can. Why not me?

You changed the course of your life once. There is no better cat to help Riley and Bella follow their hearts. Every cat deserves to choose their own path.

People create the reality they need in order to discover themselves