Quotes About Self-discovery

As a young man... you don't know anything about yourself. And add on to that, you're on the cover of magazines. People are interviewing you about what you think. You feel like a real phony.

A man can make himself put down what comes, even if it seems nauseating nonsense; tomorrow some of it may not seem wholly nonsense at all.

To every man it is decreed: Thou shalt live alone. Happy they who imagine that they have escaped the common lot; happy, whilst they imagine it.

I find myself both as man and as myself something more determined and distinctive, at pitch, more distinctive and higher pitched than anything else I see.

Any man who barely sustains an armistice with himself has no business poking around in an alien soul.

Men tend to gain wholeness by acquiring the qualities that are wrongly called feminine.

I've always been the kind of woman who had a man in her life even when he was the wrong man.

It's wrenching enough to lose the man who is your lover, your companion, your best friend, the father of your children, without losing yourself as well.

When a man understands who he is, who God is, who the devil is... then he can pick himself up out of the gutter; he can clean himself up and stand up like a man should before his God.

There's a punk rock quality to Peter Parker, that I identified with when I read the comics [Spider-Man], and that I really liked. He has this chip on his shoulder.

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

I wondered at him, so wise and so foolish, to have lived with me all these months and not know that the worst storms break inside a man.

Real liberation for men means that they can explore and integrate their feminine aspects of consciousness.

Then my life crashed and burned down: trials, men, drama, no self-love, no identity. A little identity, but not a lot of love for myself, my life.

We are nearer neighbors to ourselves than the whiteness of snow or the weight of stones are to us: if man does not know himself, how should he know his functions and powers?

Others form man; I tell of him, and portray a particular one, very ill-formed, whom I should really make very different from whathe is if I had to fashion him over again. But now it is done.

I saw my bulky person in the windows of the passing storefronts and wondered, when will that man there find himself to be loved?

At twenty-eight I'd had a handful of beaux, but had only been in love once, and that had been awful enough to make me doubt men and myself for a good long while.

I'm not doing anything, and yet I'm also doing the most important thing a man can do: I'm listening to what I needed to hear from myself.

Men astonish themselves far more than they astonish their friends.

Solitude, the sly enemy that doth separate a man from well-doing.

When a man's struggle begins within oneself, the man is worth something.

I look at Homer and The Odyssey and all the disparate adventures this guy goes through, and then he returns home and the question is, is he the same man who left?

I am a man now. Pass your hand over my brow. You can feel the place where the brains grow.