Quotes About Self-discovery

The medicine for my suffering I had within me from the very beginning, but I did not take it. My ailment came from within myself, but I did not observe it until this moment. Now I see that I will never find the light unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel.

The key to liberation is within. — Each man binds himself; the fetters are ignorance, laziness, preoccupation with self, and fear. He must liberate himself, while accepting the fact that we are of this world, so that "In summer we sweat; in winter we shiver.

Loneliness is an opportunity to find yourself. In solitude, you are least alone.

In solitude you are least alone. — Loneliness is only an opportunity to cut adrift and find yourself. In solitude you are least alone. Make good use of it.

Independent inquiry is needed in your search for truth, not dependence on anyone else's view or a mere book

Independent inquiry is need in your search for truth, not dependence on anyone else's view or a mere book

For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime.

No one you have been and no place you have gone ever leaves you. The new parts of you simply jump in the car and go along for the rest of the ride. The success of your journey and your destination all depend on who's driving.

I would spend my life on the road logging hundreds of thousands of miles and my story was always the same. . . man comes to town, detonates; man leaves town and drives off into the evening; fade to black. Just the way I like it.

We," he intoned, "are the opportunity that recognizes itself.

Since the Fall man is separated from himself. Man is complicated, and he tries to bury himself in himself. Therefore, it will take time and it will cost something to discover what the person we are speaking to often has not yet discovered for himself.138

There is no happiness outside of ourselves.

Command the space of your beingness – a space where you are allowed to grow into your true, unique nature.

Let your resistance, judgements, angers and fears inform you.

Once you realize what you really are, you cannot be stopped.

The ultimate question of who we are is set before us at all times and answered with every action.

You reclaim your power by loving what you were once taught to hate.

The secret of life is to find out what one really wants.

An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls -- even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls -- without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell.

What have you done with my life?

South Wind had been, in Marjorie's visions, a new clear world, a world where a grimy Bronx childhood and a fumbling Hunter adolescence were forgotten dreams, a world where she could at last find herself and be herself—clean, fresh, alone, untrammelled by parents. In a word, it had been the world of Marjorie Morningstar.

about Sidney, who wants to be a writer or a forest ranger or a composer or anything except what his father is, because he's ashamed of his father being a Jew, or because he thinks he's too sensitive for business or law, whatever the damned Freudian reason may be—and he ends up in his father's business just the same. I've opened my apartment door to enough of those." Noel crooked

No one pigeonholes us better than we ourselves do.

Change always takes much longer than we expect because to make room for the new, we have to get rid of some of the old selves we are still dragging around and, unconsciously, still invested in becoming.