Self Discovery Quotes
Thomas Merton
The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them
2666Dorothy Parker
In youth, it was a way I had,
To do my best to please.
And change, with every passing lad
To suit his theories.
But now I know the things I know
And do the things I do,
And if you do not like me so,
To hell, my love, with you.
4462 E.A. Bucchianeri
Falling in love is very real, but I used to shake my head when people talked about soul mates, poor deluded individuals grasping at some supernatural ideal not intended for mortals but sounded pretty in a poetry book. Then, we met, and everything changed, the cynic has become the converted, the sceptic, an ardent zealot.
4892 E.A. Bucchianeri
Love, like everything else in life, should be a discovery, an adventure, and like most adventures, you don’t know you’re having one until you’re right in the middle of it.
4906 Allan Rufus
Your inner strength is your outer foundation
1093 Amit Ray
It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters,
2654 Amit Ray
Have love for your inner Self and everything else is done for you.
3686 C. JoyBell C.
It is when you lose sight of yourself, that you lose your way. To keep your truth in sight you must keep yourself in sight and the world to you should be a mirror to reflect to you your image; the world should be a mirror that you reflect upon.
2494 Jess C. Scott
Anya looked upon Nin admirably. Having him as a partner-in-crime - if only on this one occasion, which she hoped would only be the start of something more - was more revitalizing than the cheap thrills of a cookie-cutter shallow, superficial romance, where the top priority was how beautiful a person was on the outside.
1481 Rasheed Ogunlaru
In broad terms; success is something you spend your lifetime looking for and happiness is something you spend your whole life overlooking
4425 Brian Krans
He found solace in what he wrote. It was an attempt to discover who he was at the moment.
1551 Natalie Goldberg
I don't think everyone wants to create the great American novel, but we all have a dream of telling our stories-of realizing what we think, feel, and see before we die. Writing is a path to meet ourselves and become intimate.
4289 A.S. Byatt
History, writing, infect after a time a man's sense of himself...
1286 Zack Love
Still not sure about how easily he could be integrated into their posse, Trevor smiled in delighted relief at how tolerantly two of his close friends had received his new identity.
2172 Taylor Rhodes
He tilted my chin up and I swear those lips are magic. Witchcraft. Sorcery. Whatever it is in those lips, it’s addictive. Unassailable. I had to have more. More of this feeling of being wanted.
3851 C. JoyBell C.
It is only when you accept how different you all are, that you will be able to see how much the same you all are. Don't expect anybody to be the same as you, then you will see that you are in many ways the same as everybody.
3370 Michael Jackson
When I step out on stage in front of thousands of people, I don't feel that I'm being brave. It can take much more courage to express true feelings to one person. [...] In spite of the risks, the courage to be honest and intimate opens the way to self-discovery. It offers what we all want, the promise of love.
3040 Gerard Way
Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself to become a new person.
4452 Joss Whedon
Bottom line is, even if you see 'em coming, you're not ready for the big moments. No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it does. So what are we, helpless? Puppets? No. The big moments are gonna come. You can't help that. It's what you do afterwards that counts. That's when you find out who you are.
3160 Fernando Pessoa
I suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses me. Only at night and all alone, withdrawn, forgotten and lost, with no connection to anything real or useful - only then do I find myself and feel comforted.
3628 Robert T. Kiosaki
It’s not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life, it’s what you whisper to yourself that has the most power!
4534 Sarah Dessen
We make such messes in this life, both accidently and on purpose. But wiping the surface clean doesn't really make anything any neater. It just masks what is below. It's only when you really dig down deep, go underground, that you can see who you really are.
4937 Friedrich Nietzsche
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
4959 Bob Dylan
He not busy being born is busy dying.
4626 Luci Swindoll
It's daring to be curious about the unknown, to dream big dreams, to live outside prescribed boxes, to take risks, and above all, daring to investigate the way we live until we discover the deepest treasured purpose of why we are here.
2842 Nicolas G. Janovsky
Spending time looking for what is missing in your life is futile; if you fail to look within yourself. When we challenge everything we believe we are, we reveal that which we never knew about our own selves.
4577 Aristotle
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.
2860 Aristotle
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
4270 T.S. Eliot
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
1658 Amit Ray
If you want to fly on the sky, you need to leave the earth. If you want to move forward, you need to let go the past that drags you down.
3779 Amit Ray
When you know the knower within, you don't need to know further. When you know the meditator within, you don't need to meditate further. When you truly know the worshiper in you, you are to be worshiped.
4310 Nikki Rowe
The pathway to peace is an in describable journey of facing ones darkness, to find ones light. If they told you it's easier to give up, you met a fool; if they told you; it's easier to grow, you met the wise.
4773 Rasheed Ogunlaru
You are what resides before, beyond and between what you think so do not be consumed by thought. It is only a fragment of your magic.
1869 Summer Daniels
Perhaps I was being picky, but I really didn’t think being able to spell orgasm without being spotted a vowel was asking too much.
1765 Martina Boone
But there was a difference between being stuck and choosing to stay. Between being found and finding yourself.
1895 Chuck Palahniuk
It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.
3253 Hermann Hesse
I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.
4757 Walter Scott
We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.
3474 Amit Ray
Self-observation is the first step of inner unfolding.
3793 C. JoyBell C.
We can't be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don't have something better.
3947 C. JoyBell C.
The most adventurous journey to embark on; is the journey to yourself, the most exciting thing to discover; is who you really are, the most treasured pieces that you can find; are all the pieces of you, the most special portrait you can recognize; is the portrait of your soul.
3037 Charlotte Eriksson
So many people will tell you ”no”, and you need to find something you believe in so hard that you just smile and tell them ”watch me”. Learn to take rejection as motivation to prove people wrong. Be unstoppable. Refuse to give up, no matter what. It’s the best skill you can ever learn.
3861 Ryan Lilly
Those with calling also find wealth, so jump and start swimming towards your true self.
1962 E.M. Forster
I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.
3282 T Jay Taylor
Once you discover that failure is survivable, your fear of it subsides. Failure is not opposite to success, just part of its process.
4322 Mark Mustian
Time stretches and calms, but still we reach, for we belonged then. We want to know. Sometimes that knowledge is painful, or inconvenient, or even damning. But it is essential. It exposes us for what we have been, and can be.
2529 Rainer Maria Rilke
for sometime now I have believed that it is our own force, all our own force that is still too great for us. It is true that we do not know it; but is it not just that which is most our own of which we know the least?
1425 Solange Nicole
A dangerous and treacherous path is only worth it when the desire to have courage outweighs the driving need to get to the other side.
4033 Maya Angelou
When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.
1533 Vironika Tugaleva
The answers to your problems lie all around you. The keys to your self-discovery are waiting to be found in each sunset, each pair of eyes, each breath of fresh air. Listen to the symphony of life and you will hear yourself. Find the beauty of nature and you have found your soul.
1453 Ikechukwu Joseph
Old age is not a limitation or that your time have expired.
Retirement is not that you are tired.You have more experience
1542 Ikechukwu Joseph
People are your responsibility and character is the hidden powers that cause the miracle people
4399 Toni Sorenson
A journey through nature is always a road that leads to self-discovery.
3248 Sri Chinmoy
I shall now call myself;
I shall now call.
In the forest of my heart, seeing myself,
I shall love myself and love myself.
I shall be my own quest,
My absolute wealth.
The journey of light supreme will commence
In the heart of freedom.
2372 Max Ernst
When the artist finds himself he is lost. The fact that he has succeeded in never finding himself is regarded by Max Ernst as his only lasting achievement.
2123 Tricia Walker
Why is it that one of the best songs in the world has to be written by the BeeGees?"
Benedict
1524 Ikechukwu Joseph
Do something,get something. Do nothing,get nothing.
Doing is the beginning of being. Being is the beginning of
achieving. Achieving is the essence of living and
living is the spices of life
4037 Ikechukwu Joseph
Every problem has one immediate cause, many remote causes, long term and short term effects
4725 David Mitchell
Try this for deviancy: fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' conscience; what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame you for holding the mirror."
I hid my shock by asking when purebloods might blame themselves.
Mephi replied, "History suggests, not until they are made to.
2277 Adi Alsaid
Funny, how it took a little bit of pain to remember that certain parts of yourself were alive.
3669 Allan Rufus
Hard work does not go unnoticed,
and someday the rewards will follow
3262 Allan Rufus
Note and Quote to Self – What you think, say and do!
Your life mainly consists of 3 things!
What you think,
What you say and
What you do!
So always be very conscious of what you are co-creating!
2126 Allan Rufus
Unless we take that first step into the unknown, we will never know our own potential!
1239 Allan Rufus
NOTE TO SELF – BOOMERANG EFFECT
My words, thoughts and deeds have
a boomerang effect.
So be-careful what you send out!
2566 Allan Rufus
Quotes and notes to self – Find your inner peace!
Don’t
be caught up in your outer world.
Pay
greater attention to your inner world
3223 Allan Rufus
Note to Self – Thoughts design my energy!
My
thoughts
WILL
design the energy
that moves
me!
3428 Allan Rufus
Quotes and notes to self- Divine and Unique Power
Find out what my Individual Divine
and Unique Power
IS
and offer it outwards
in harmony
with all life!
2040 Rasheed Ogunlaru
Rest and peace should not be left until you're deceased. They are two vital life incredients everybody needs and seeks.
3267 Laura Dave
You think if you don’t talk about it, you can just pretend everything is all right? Everything is not all right. Not with us, not with your parents, not with anything today. And if you let yourself go anywhere real with it, you have to acknowledge it.
2436 Stanisław Lem
Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, and without finding what lies behind doorways that he himself has sealed.
3721 Taylor Rhodes
Is it bad to like the way the scars look on my skin? Oh, the way they feel under my hands. My body’s protecting itself, saying, “No, this barrier of scar tissue is to keep you out.
4714 Solange Nicole
To be calm and compassionate you need courage and conviction.
3472 Taylor Rhodes
We are paint streaked runners,
deafened by the cries of all the sad people.
It's a powerful sound that practically yanks the tears right out of you.
Sometimes, you just can't help but feel like a
very small
clam in
a very
big ocean.
2716 Lily Brooks-Dalton
A motorcycle is a vehicle of change, after all. It puts the wheels beneath a midlife crisis, or a coming-of-age saga, or even just the discovery of something new, something you didn't realize was there. It provides the means to cross over, to transition, or to revitalize; motorcycles are self-discovery's favorite vehicle.
4900 Vironika Tugaleva
Don't let what you thought you were yesterday keep you from becoming what you're meant to be today.
2000 Charlotte Eriksson
Are you in love? What makes your heart beat faster? What do you want people to think about when they hear your name.
3639 Charlotte Eriksson
It’s called ”being an artist” for a reason; it’s something YOU ARE. It’s how you live. It’s WHO you are. How you spend your life and what you leave behind.
2696 Elizabeth Grace Saunders
We spend our lives asking the question, ‘What do people want me to do? Who do they want me to be?’ But this is a betrayal of our inner truth. We should be investing our lives in the pursuit of discovering who we are and what we were created to do.
3485 Morgan Matson
I was speaking without thinking about it first, not hesitating, just saying what I felt first.
3947 Kamal Ravikant
The simple act of putting your truth on paper, only you and your thoughts, is one of the most powerful exercises you can do.
3946 Michael Bassey Johnson
Everything on earth has a purpose to fulfill, though it may look worthless, but time will tell if god did a mistake in creating them.
3376 Vironika Tugaleva
We speak about losing our minds as if it is a bad thing. I say, lose your mind. Do it purposefully. Find out who you really are beyond your thoughts and beliefs. Lose your mind, find your soul.
2917 John Banville
I shall strip away layer after layer of grime - the toffee-colored varnish and caked soot left by a lifetime of dissembling - until I come to the very thing itself and know it for what it is. My soul. My self.
2903 Marianne Williamson
It takes courage...to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives.
1140 C. JoyBell C.
Today I am someone different. Today I have finally become who I really am.
3434 Rasheed Ogunlaru
There's no alternative to being yourself. Accept it, honour it, value it - and get on with it.
4358 Vironika Tugaleva
In your heart, you have a song that will change the world, once you give yourself permission to sing.
4255 Kellie Elmore
I don't want someone to believe my lies, I need someone to accept my truths.
3277 Stephen Richards
Though it may be interesting to know how many hairs there are on the human head, or how the giant red spot on the surface of Jupiter was formed, the real truths we are interested in are those about ourselves.
2741 Stephen Richards
Putting someone down with name calling reveals your own low self-esteem.
3656 Ikechukwu Joseph
Stay with and pursue your dreams, and
history will tell your stories in golden,
glossy and embossed shining foils
1517 Ikechukwu Joseph
The difference between the ordinary and extraordinary is the extra. Go the extra mile and enter your extraordinary success
4839 Ikechukwu Joseph
You need to understand your potentials to transform it. look in to Yourself, upwards to God then outwards to your environ
2795 Nina Guilbeau
Learn to be brave and adventurous because you’ll never discover your place in the world, if you’re too afraid to leave your own backyard.
4486 Charlotte Eriksson
I am living a simple life with a complicated mind and I have yet to find a state of mind where I feel safe with who I am, where I am, with what I do.
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