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Quotes About Self-discovery

To wanna be me is to go through not just the good but the bad. You wanna share my story identically? Man, you gonna take some lumps.
~ Queen Latifah
Maybe I should try singing like a man.
~ James Blunt
Every man heals himself.
~ Janet Morris
A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Me in a one-man tent crouching over carrier bag. It's not just the lowest point of the trip. It's the lowest point ever. In 38 years.
~ Karl Pilkington
I have changed for the last time--this is the man I will be till I die. And that man loves you.
~ Sharon Shinn
Maybe we spend most of our decades being someone else, avoiding ourselves, maybe a man is only himself, his true self, for a few days in his entire life.
~ Charles Yu
What is the use for a man to have at his disposal a large field of action, if within himself he remains confine to the narrow limits of his individuality.
~ African Spir
The more a man knows about himself in relation to every kind of experience, the greater his chance of suddenly, one fine morning, realizing who in fact he is.
~ Aldous Huxley
Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, the necessity of being the man you are and not another. You are free to be that man, but not another.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The progress of life shows a man the stuff of which he is made.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
A rational man knows-or makes it a point to discover-the source of his emotions, the basic premises from which they come.
~ Ayn Rand
You kids were all in college, and I suddenly saw that I was stuck alone with a man who, all those years later, was still wanting me to be someone I wasn't.
~ Barbara Delinsky
Man is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself.
~ Benjamin Whichcote
If men knew themselves, God would heal and pardon them.
~ Blaise Pascal
If man should commence by studying himself, he would see how impossible it is to go further.
~ Blaise Pascal
Slowly you become your own man.
~ Bob Weir
I did learn a great deal about my husband but I also learned something about myself: I made a wise choice. I think he's a good man.
~ Cindy McCain
There was nothin to set a man's mind at ease like wakin up in the morning and not havin to decide who you were.
~ Cormac McCarthy
The man who knows his limitations, has none.
~ David Foster Wallace
So yo then man what's your story?
~ David Foster Wallace
Because he's a character who's looking for his own identity, [He-Man is] an interesting role for an actor.
~ Dolph Lundgren
I was a man by middle school.
~ Edgerrin James
A man is not aware of his virtues (if any). Nevertheless, one hopes that they exist.
~ Edward Abbey