Quotes About Self-discovery

Not in our make-up, to be sure - not in the pose which is preceded by the tantaras of a trumpet - do the essential traits in our character first reveal themselves. But truly in the little things the real self is exteriorised.

You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.

I still find trusting people quite hard. I've got a couple of mates that I do let in, but that's it. It's something I've got to sort out - I cut people off.

Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.

We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we're capable of.

In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds.

The truth is we're all searching. We're all looking for guidance, for mentors, and I'm by no means someone to follow.

The truth is, my life was made infinitely more difficult because I didn't read any books. But I didn't read any books. That's my story. That's my truth.

The older that we get and the different stages we go through in life, it seems like we become different people. But I think that the truth is you are always the same person. You just discover these new things about yourself.

What I've found - and the older I get, the more I understand this and stand behind it - is, my whole life has been an exploration of telling the truth. It's scary to be truthful, and it's scary to reveal yourself, and I'm very attracted to doing things that scare me.

True strength lies in our knowing, individually, what we are, who we are, and what we want.

All of my life I wanted be something. I guess now that I am, I don't want to be.

Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.

I don't know who I am. Or maybe I do know who I am and I just don't want to be her anymore.

Yoga is not about touching your toes. It's about unlocking your ideas about what you want, where you think you can go, and how you will achieve it when you get there.

When I do something, it is all about self-discovery. I want to learn and discover my own limits.

Be yourself, find out what you love, find out what you really want to do, and go do it. And don't depend on people who don't have your best interests at heart.

People go to college to find who they are as a person and find what they want to do in life, and I kind of already know that so it would be like I'd be taking a step back or something.

You rarely have time for everything you want in this life, so you need to make choices. And hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are.

At a stage when young people want more than anything to be like everyone else, they find themselves the least alike. Everyone their age is growing and changing, but each at his or her own pace.

I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.

In my life and career I want to embrace ageing because I think that's what's interesting.

I decided I was sick of trying to figure out what everybody else wanted, and I should just decide what I want, and be honest, and not spend all my time guessing.

Sometimes, the experiences that tell you what you don't want to do are as important as those that tell you what you do want to do.