Quotes About Self-discovery

I can safely say that I had an incredibly difficult and trying past growing up and trying to be an artist and standing up as who I am in this world.

The process of learning how to defend my body, how to own my space and take away space from other people, and getting me in touch with my masculine, testosterone-heavy side, from a personal development standpoint, it was really helpful to me - as well as releasing aggression and frustration.

Now, if I had an Indian name, it would be 'Stands in Confusion'.

I enjoy doing standup, but when I'm 50, I don't know if I'll still enjoy doing standup. It might be one of those things where I find other palettes that I want to paint on and make comedic.

Man will become better when you show him what he is like.

Circumstances do not make the man or woman, they merely reveal them.

How can one dive into the intricate mystery of man when One doesn't see where One is located

The shaman is not merely a sick man, or a madman; he is a sick man who has healed himself.

A man can certainly be a Muppet. Being a Muppet is a state of mind. It's about finding that little part of you that's unique, and not being embarrassed by it, but cherishing it.

Again, I maintain that no organization can lead man to spirituality.

It is a shame to confess but among all living creatures only man doesn't know what is useful for him.

Every fellow is really two men -- what he is and what he might be; and you're never absolutely sure which you're going to bury till he's dead.

For a certain type of woman who risks losing her identity in a man, there are all those questions . . . until you get to the point and know that you really are living a love story.

But man as a person, the same man, gains mastery over egocentric self-confinement by disclosing a universe in himself...Personality is a universe, it is filled with universal content.

Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all … is not to have one.

All men contain several men inside them, and most of us bounce from one self to another without ever knowing who we are.

Know mankind well, don't degrade every man as evil, and don't exalt every man thinking he is good. He who cannot discover himself; cannot discover the world.

Eventually every man gotta face the problem of tryin' to figger if it's worthwhile to prove that he is himself.

A man's task is to find himself, and if he fails in this, it doesn't much matter what else he finds.

What's your road, man? - holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow. Where body how?

Every man goes through a period of thinking they're attracted to another guy.

Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Self-reliance is the key to a vigorous life. A man must look inward to find his own answers.

In one sense Brahman is known to every human being; he knows, "I am"; but man does not know himself as he is.