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Quotes About Self-discovery

Luke mentioned that a lot of people go to the Kumbh Mela festival to 'find themselves'. That's a saying I've never understood. If I did want to find myself, I don't think I'd find me at a festival with 20 million other people. I hate crowds. The
~ Karl Pilkington
I mean what else is there for a woman to do if she doesn't want to go from the parental to the marital home with nothing in between? 'An educated woman,'Millie amended. 'An educated woman,' Ursula agreed.
~ Kate Atkinson
I'm not myself, she said and then laughed maniacally, but God knows who I am.
~ Kate Atkinson
The gods were on the point of giving up when Brahma said, 'I know where we will hide man's divinity, we will hide it inside him. he will search the whole world but never look inside and find what is already within.
~ Kate Atkinson
He drank his first strong liquor then to calm his shaking hand, and tried to tell himself at last he had become a man.
~ Johnny Cash
Man needs to go outside himself in order to find repose and reveal himself.
~ Jose Marti
Every one is least known to himself, and it is very difficult for a man to know himself.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Someone once said, 'Adversity introduces a man to himself.' For some reason, that's scary, but most people discover that adversity does make them stronger.
~ Max Cleland
Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
If I were but a man who would be tall, I would be me.
~ Ryan Stiles
I'll develop my own image. I'm an original man. A one and only. I just need some help.
~ Sam Shepard
He who knows himself well is mean and abject in his own sight, and takes no delight in the vain praise of men.
~ Thomas a Kempis
I am not a conventionally religious man, but in the wilderness I have come closest to finding myself and knowing the universe and accepting God - by which I mean accepting all that I don't know.
~ Bob Brown
Naw, man, I like big, hard, throbbing co- (stunned pause) ...I did not know that about myself.
~ Ron White
The 'still, small voice' of God never calls on me to be like another man. It appeals to me to rise to my full stature and fulfill the promise that sleeps within my being.
~ Sam Keen
I taught myself to name my name, To bark back, loosen love and crying; To ease my woman so she came, To ease an old man who was dying.
~ W. D. Snodgrass
A man who is really earnest must begin with himself, he must be passively aware of all his thoughts, feelings and actions.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
To find his own salvation, a man must first find the fool locked inside himself and set it free.
~ Leonore Fleischer
The man has the possibilities of getting free gradually from the mechanical laws.
~ G. I. Gurdjieff
By experiencing your emotions somatically, there is no boogie man to scare you.
~ Gary Zukav
Every man contains within himself a ghost continent.
~ Loren Eiseley
I'm working it out, man. I'm working through some stuff, trying to find my way like everyone.
~ Riz Ahmed
For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find.
~ James A. Michener
I'm a good person and I don't think I'll be left on my own. I don't know when I'll meet a man - I think I'm rushing it. But I am tired of working and not having someone.
~ Beyonce Knowles