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Quotes About Self-discovery

I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins.
~ Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
All that we need to know all the wisdom of the cosmos we will find in our own heart
~ Mother Teresa
Knowledge studies others, wisdom is self known.
~ Laozi
Each one must learn for himself the highest wisdom. It cannot be taught. You have the wisdom of your race. Be content.
~ Smohalla
Well, right now, my music is - it's just happy. I'm not in a relationship, but I know who I am now. I have wisdom. I have the power of knowing who I am. That's huge.
~ Michel'le
For me to be a saint means to be myself. Therefore the problem of sanctity and salvation is in fact the problem of finding out who I am and of discovering my true self.
~ Thomas Merton
The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.
~ Eric Hoffer
The death of the self lies in the life of the heart
~ Ja'far al-Sadiq
I didn't know the language of my own wisdom. I wanted to be loved and after all the various relationships I went through, I finally realized I am love. I carry love.
~ Mark Nepo
The things one experiences alone with oneself are very much stronger and purer.
~ Eugene Delacroix
The mountain is a mirror, where climbers look to find themselves. They discover their frailty, take heart from their strengths, drink deep of the insights.
~ Lincoln Hall
They say you should know your limits and work within them. But how can you really know your limits unless you try to expand them?
~ Jonathan Cainer
You are greater than anything that can happen to you. In a big and terrifying crisis, people find within themselves a power and a strength and also a wisdom they had no idea they possessed.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
When we allow ourselves to feel what we are feeling-without trying to understand it, explain it, or judge it-we reach a point where the true wisdom reveals itself.
~ Michael Eisen
The more I know about myself the more dynamic I become, the more expansive I become.
~ Nirmala Srivastava
A little while alone in your room will prove more valuable than anything else that could ever be given you.
~ Rumi
It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves
~ Arthur Miller, The Crucible
I believe you can have a much better life if you are true to your core self, and therefore guided by love and intuitive inner knowing.
~ Peter Shepherd
When within yourself you find the road, the right road will open.
~ Dejan Stojanovic, The Creator
It is sometimes wise to forget who we are.
~ Publilius Syrus
Buddha had said: "Each of us is a God. Each of us knows all. We need only open our minds to hear our own wisdom.
~ Dan Brown
When you know yourself you are surprised that what is the greatest thing for you is to love and to be loved.
~ Nirmala Srivastava
What a man 'learns' is really what he 'discovers,' by taking the cover off his own soul, which is a mine of infinite knowledge.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Until the inner teacher opens, all outside teaching is in vain.
~ Swami Vivekananda