Quotes About Self-discovery

Truth is not introduced into the individual from without, but was within him all the time.

Make an island of yourself, make yourself your refuge; there is no other refuge. Make truth your island, make truth your refuge; there is no other refuge.

Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.

You have to be willing to expose yourself, at least to yourself, to get to some kind of truth about a character.

It wasn't until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you've got to write your own books and nobody else's, and then everything followed from there.

The conflicts we have with the outside world are often conflicts we have within ourselves.

… the world will indulge you just so long Asher Lev. Then it will stop. You will simply have to grow accustomed to that truth.

The truth can be spoken only by someone who is already at home in it; not by someone who still lives in untruthfulness, and does no more than reach out towards it from within untruthfulness.

Forcing yourself to think happy lies doesn't heal your dreams. Getting to the truth does.

It's true that necessity is the mother of invention. But for those of us without fathers, there is a deeper truth - necessity is the mother of self-invention.

Remember this always: The living of your own life writes the book of your most sacred truth, and offers evidence of it.

Whatever truth we feel compelled to withhold, no matter how unthinkable it is to imagine ourselves telling it, not to is a way of spiritually holding our breath. You can only do it for so long.

The very essence of martial arts is the thirst for knowledge and the truth about ourselves.

Telling the truth is like exposing the underside of our wings. We only see that part when we fly.

No one can give you the strength of character necessary... Only you can find that passion within that burns with an integrity that will not settle for anything less than the Truth.

Whatever else you do, listen to your Deepest Self. Love Her and be true to Her, speak Her truth, always.

The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.

These pages are not my confession; they're my definition. And I feel, as I begin to write it, that I can write it with some semblance of truth.

Truth, for any man, is that which makes him a man.

Some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle.

I have survived. I am here. Confused, screwed up, but here. So, how can I find my way? Is there a chain saw of the soul, an ax I can take to my memories or fears?

You can never hide from your truth. If you do, you will always be lost.

The voice of inner truth says, 'I embrace the unknown because it allows me to see new aspects of myself'.

Life's experiences are intended to make you eventually face yourself. Face reality!