Quotes About Self-discovery

Man is the highest being in creation, because he attains to freedom.

Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.

No attempt must be made to encase man, for it is his destiny to be set free.

One man runs to his neighbor because he is looking for himself, and another because he wants to loose himself. Your bad love of yourselves makes solitude a prison for you.

No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.

Every man's road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings.

The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life.

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

In my own defense, I wrote a one-man show, and that to me was more where I fit.

I wanted to play professional hockey, man. But when I acted, I thought, 'Well, okay, maybe I do have something here.'

Having achieved and accomplished love, then the man passes into the unknown. He has become himself, his tale is told.

The greatest education man has to learn is the science of self.

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

It is a great advantage for us to be able to consult someone who knows us, so that we may learn to know ourselves.

Since God has given it such great dignity, permitting it to wander at will through the rooms of the castle, from the lowest to the highest. Let it not force itself to remain for very long in the same mansion, even the one of self-knowledge.

It is no small pity, and should cause us no little shame, that, through our own fault, we do not understand ourselves, or know who we are.

As I see it, we shall never succeed in knowing ourselves unless we seek to know God: let

Authentic prayer changes us, unmasks us, strips us, indicates where growth is needed.

You're a superhero. Deal with it.

You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself.

Only after giving up 'the truth' can we learn to speak our truth.

to move beyond some part of you, you must first get to know it and ultimately befriend it.

One of the main tasks of adolescence is to achieve an identity—not necessarily a knowledge of who we are, but a clarification of the range of what we might become, a set of self-references by which we can make sense of our responses, and justify our decisions and goals.

What about you, Ian? Why don't you come too? Can't. I'm Jewish. You are not Jewish! You're Italian. I was thinking of converting.