Quotes About Self-discovery

I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage.

Men are recognizing that they have been forced to conform to a very narrow and rather two-dimensional picture of maleness and manhood that they have never had the freedom to question.

Once there was a man who was afraid of his shadow. Then he met it. Now he glows in the dark.

No man will ever unfold the capacities of his own intellect who does not at least checker his life with solitude.

How do you expect to arrive at the end of your own journey if you take the road to another man's city?

Let us leave every man at liberty to seek into him and to lose himself in his ideas.

What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is 'himself'.

Each man's life represents a road toward himself, an attempt at such a road, the intimation of a path. No man has ever been entirely and completely himself.

God made the senses turn outwards, man therefore looks outwards, not into himself. But occasionally a daring soul, desiring immortality, has looked back and found himself.

It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should?

The farther a man knows himself to be free from perfection, the nearer he is to it.

I thought I had fallen in love with a woman a couple of times. Then I fell in love with a man, and realised that none of those things had been love.

Has any man ever obtained inner harmony by simply reading about the experiences of others? Not since the world began has it ever happened. Each man must go through the fire himself.

When I grew up, people said, 'You'll never be the man your dad was.' And I said, 'Gee, I hope not.'

Write about this man who, drop by drop, squeezes the slave's blood out of himself until he wakes one day to find the blood of a real human being--not a slave's--coursing through his veins.

No man can discover his own talents.

It has taken us that long to get the deaf, dumb, and blind black men in the wilderness of North America to wake up and understand who they are.

I made an enjoyable living as a very young man, but I think as I became more comfortable and knowledgeable about myself and what I wanted, I moved into acting.

The great trouble with most men is that those who have been educated become uneducated just as soon as they stop inquiring and investigating life and its problems for themselves.

Falling in love with another man is like falling into a vast vat of yourself. For some men this is ultimately nourishing, for others . . . it is drowning.

Man forms himself in his own interior, and nowhere else.

The men who have had the most to give to their fellow men are those who have enriched their minds and hearts in solitude. It is a poor education that does not fit a man to be alone with himself.

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

Be yourself. A horse without the lancer is still a horse; a lancer without the horse is just a man.