Quotes About Self-discovery

I haven't been that great at attending my own openings. Still, I'm learning to enjoy this a lot more than I used to.

I think we were just coming out and being ourselves, instead of operating within boundaries that other people had created. We decided to do away with those boundaries.

At the core, coaching authenticity is complicated - some might say impossible. Telling someone to be authentic sounds pretty low calorie, especially to a founder plowing through a list of product and operational goals. But it's important.

In my humble opinion, the ages 22 to about 27 are the most critical years of your adult life. It's your time to gestate in the cocoon of becoming.

If one were to live his life fully and completely were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it

But whether I become a believer or remain an agnostic, my belief or disbelief must derive its source from within, not from without. I, myself, must create its symbols. The transcendental is that which produces its own form. I will never discover its secret if I do not find it in my own heart; if I do not possess it already I shall never be able to acquire it.

It often happened that when we thought we were experimenting on others we were really experimenting on ourselves.

I keep a diary in order to enter the wonderful secrets of my life. If I didn't write them down, I should not probably forget all about them.

I am not sorry for anything that has happened. It has taught me to know myself better.

Lady Bracknell, I hate to seem inquisitive, but would you kindly inform me who I am?

There is much more before me. I have hills far steeper to climb, valleys much darker to pass through. And I have to get it all out of myself. Neither religion, morality, nor reason can help me at all.

People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one's self.

I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living.

The moment I met you I saw that you were quite unconscious of what you really are, of what you really might be. There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell you something about yourself. I thought how tragic it would be if you were wasted.

The only possible society is oneself. To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

But there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely — or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.

This portrait would be to him the most magical of mirrors. As it had revealed to him his own body, so it would reveal to him his own soul.

To realise one's nature perfectly—that is what each of us is here for.

Why had it been left for a stranger to reveal him to himself?

But he felt afraid of him, and ashamed of being afraid. Why had it been left for a stranger to reveal him to himself?

I have always been my own master; had at least always been so, till I met Dorian Gray. Then - but I don't know how to explain it to you. Something seemed to tell me that I was on the verge of a terrible crisis in my life. I had a strange feeling that Fate had in store for me exquisite joys and exquisite sorrows. I grew afraid, and turned to quit the room. It was not conscience that made me do so: it was a sort of cowardice. I take no credit to myself for trying to escape.

There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life fully, entirely, completely, or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands. When

I lost one illusion last night. I thought I had no heart. I find I have, and a heart doesn't suit me, Windermere. Somehow it doesn't go with modern dress. It makes one look old. And it spoils one's career at critical moments.