Quotes About Self-discovery

Everyone who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves, to multiply the ways in which they exist, to make their life full, significant, and interesting.

When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.

We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seeded refusal of that which others have made of us.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Books ... rarely, if ever, talk about what children can make of themselves, about the powers that from the day or moment of birth are present in every child.

We run away all the time to avoid coming face to face with ourselves.

A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right.

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.

Unhappiness is in not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.

Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone.

God is what man finds that is divine in himself. God is the best way man can behave in the ordinary occasions of life, and the farthest point to which man can stretch himself.

It is only by expressing all that is inside that purer and purer streams come.

Being happy is something you have to learn. I often surprise myself by saying, "Wow, this is it. I guess I'm happy. I've got a home that I love. A career that I love. I'm even feeling more and more at peace with myself." If there's something else to happiness, let me know. I'm ambitious for that, too.

If an Arab in the desert were suddenly to discover a spring in his tent, and so would always be able to have water in abundance, how fortunate he would consider himself; so too, when a man who ... is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

Resolve to be thyself; and know that who finds himself, loses his misery.

You don't have to sit on top of a mountain to discover what's right for you. You always know in your heart what you need to do.

Female friendships that work are relationships in which women help each other belong to themselves.

I've discovered I'm a strong and capable person. I can handle almost anything except being alone with this.

I wish everybody would go back into the closet.

Truthfully, being pregnant is changing me as a person. Each day is part of this amazing journey that has completely shifted the focus of my life and made me reevaluate my personal and professional goals.

I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people's truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave.

It's never too late to try authenticity.

People will always try to change you. They will always want you to be who they want you to be. That's fine because I'll always be exactly who I want to be.

I decided to try celibacy because I heard it would help the meditation, and I tried meditation because I heard it would help with the music. So, it all really comes back to the music.