Quotes About Self-discovery

A wise man travels to discover himself.

Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves.

Travel is the best investment you can make in yourself.

In order to travel far you have to be detached.

The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.

Rereading a favorite novel first read 5, 10, or 20 years ago, is a measure of our travel, how far we've come; it's a way of visiting an earlier self.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policies and coercion are fruitless. We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

Travel, which is like a greater and a graver science, brings us back to ourselves.

To travel is the experience of ceasing to be the person you are trying to be, and becoming the person you really are.

Direct your eye inward, and you'll find / A thousand regions in your mind / Yet undiscovered. Travel them, and be / Expert in home-cosmography

When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego ... things will happen to us so that we don't know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in.

How can you wonder your travels do you no good, when you carry yourself around with you?

Some journeys in life can only be traveled alone.

Until they come up with an independent woman who's on an adventure of her own, I don't think I'm interested.

we can't know a road until we travel it. Hearing about it is not enough. We are obliged to travel over it.

We travel so far only to land where we are. We imagine other lives, only to meet who we are. We seek out love in special ways, only to find everyone is special. Humbly, we can't avoid this journey.

The real meaning of travel, like that of a conversation by the fireside, is the discovery of oneself through contact with other people, and its condition is self-commitment in the dialogue.

Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home, but abroad one gets to know oneself.

The drive to Black Rock City from San Francisco leads through the Nevada flatlands, past the jittering neon sadness of Reno.

Strong and content I travel the open road.

It is better to travel than to arrive. Better, by far, to find your own way than to have someone else choose it for you -- don't you think?

I still believe that you truly find yourself not in travel, but in other human souls.

Adventure is not something you travel to find. It's something you take with you, or you're not going to find it when you arrive.

New situations inspire new thoughts. Here is the benefit of travelling, much more than in mere sight-seeing. We lose ourselves in the streets of our own city, and go abroad to find ourselves.