Quotes About Self-discovery

In the early 2000s, I was going through a lot. I didn't have my head screwed on right. Where I was at as a man, I was still growing up.

For Zen, man is the goal; man is the end unto himself. God is not something above humanity, God is something hidden within humanity. Man is carrying God in himself as a potentiality.

I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.

The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.

Every man should let out all the length of all the reigns; should find or make a frank and healthy expression of what force and meaning is in him.

A man is a beggar who only lives to the useful, and, however he may serve as a pin or rivet in the social machine, cannot be saidto have arrived at self-possession.

But no man's a hero to himself. I've lived with me a lifetime. I know everything worth knowing about myself--" ~Something Wicked This Way Comes

Every man is an original and solitary character. None can either understand or feel the book of his own life like himself.

It seems to me that before a man tries to express anything to the world he must recognize in himself an individual, a new one, very distinct from others.

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

A man must find his occasions in himself, it is true. The natural day is very calm, and will hardly reprove his indolence.

But perhaps a man is not required to bury himself.

Every man is full of music; but it is not every man that knows how to bring it out.

Every man carries a menagerie in himself; and, by stirring him up all around, you will find every sort of animal represented there.

I had grown a thin mustache, I was a full-grown man, and yet I was completely helpless and without a goal in life.

When attempted self-destruction does not cure a man of life, it cures him of voluntary death.

It [his brothers assassination] made Robert Kennedy, a man unprepared for introspection, think for the first time in his life, what he wanted to do, and what he stood for.

You find out what type of man you are.

A man must walk only his own path...Never another's or his feet will grow tired and sore. And he will feel lost even when he arrives.

Every man must form himself as a particular being, seeking, however, to attain that general idea of which all mankind are constituents.

Beloved brother, let us not forget that man can never get away from himself. [Ger., Lass uns, geliebter Bruder, nicht vergessen, Dass von sich selbst der Mensch nicht scheiden kann.]

A man really living alone (alone mentally as well as physically) would have little or no occasion to reflect upon his past experience to extract its net meaning.

The practise of an art is essential to the whole man, not because of what art is but because of what art does to the artist.

I would mimic what I saw in Grease and Guys and Dolls in front of my mom's mirror and I would practice voices and songs. When you put me alone in a room, that's what I would do.