Quotes About Self-discovery

It's not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.

I've got this crazy dream of stripping down to truth and bone.

Don't go outside; get back to yourself, in the inner man lies the Truth.

Falling hard for somebody makes you do things you never thought you'd do before. Like pulling off an A in History or finally facing the truth about yourself

If you did nothing but pursue the truth about yourself for the rest of your life, you would never run out of fresh discoveries.

If they told us what to believe, and we didn't come to it on our own, is it still true?

There are no rules for living, because you are unique. Find your truth in each moment and dare to live it. That is the way to freedom.

The truth about a man lies first and foremost in what he hides.

Unless you're living in your truth, you're slowly killing yourself.

You have to feel your own personal truth with a little 't' – your sadness, rage, frustration for example -- in order to get to the Truth with a big 'T'.

You draw closer to truth by shutting yourself off from mankind.

A Buddhist monk has a responsibility first and foremost to themselves, and that's to find the truth each day in every part of their life.

It is only in Samadhi that you'll begin to get an inkling of who you are; and finally, it is only in nirvana that this perfect truth will become clear.

You must know for yourself, directly, the truth of yourself and you cannot realize it through another, however great. There is no authority that can reveal it.

"Margaret" was just my truth. It was what I knew to be true about sixth grade.

I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth...as my life consists of nothing but those experiments.

The truth is to be found nowhere else other than within ourselves.

To find truth completely is to realize oneself and one's destiny, i.e. to become perfect.

Truth be told, I'm much more comfortable in a pair of hiking boots or with a rack of climbing gear than in front of a laptop.

To me, at forty-four years old, my book was a search for truth and identity.

However difficult, however scary, I had to live my truth. I chose to be more brave than I was afraid and am loving my life as a result.

Eighteen is a terrible age, and while I walked around with the conviction that I was somehow more grown-up than my classmates, the truth was that I had merely found a different way of being young.

If you have found your truth within yourself there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.

Truth is not to be found outside. No teacher, no scripture can give it to you. It is inside you and if you wish to attain it, seek your own company. Be with yourself.