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Quotes About Self-Discovery I
By peace | June 23, 2006
In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own. ~Alice Walker
Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself. ~William Butler Yeats
If you haven’t had at least a slight poetic crack in the heart, you have been cheated by nature. ~Phyllis Battelle
Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time. ~Timothy Leary
I’ve left Bethlehem and I feel free… I’ve left the girl I was supposed to be and some day I’ll be born. ~Paula Cole
Resolve to be thyself; and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery. ~Matthew Arnold
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet. ~Charles Caleb Colton
No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself. ~Thomas Mann
Every one of us has in him a continent of undiscovered character. Blessed is he who acts the Columbus to his own soul. ~Author Unknown
There’s a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside. ~Pearl Bailey
I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can’t find anybody who can tell me what they want. ~Mark Twain
He who knows others is learned; He who knows himself is wise. ~Lao-tzu
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. ~James A. Froude
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth. ~Alan Watts
Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it’s dark. ~Zen Proverb
We are the products of editing, rather than authorship. ~George Wald
To be too conscious is an illness - a real thoroughgoing illness. ~Fyodor Dostoevski
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. ~Anaïs Nin
There are… things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind. ~Fyodor Dostoyevsky
It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy. ~Lucille Ball
Oh! that you could turn your eyes towards the napes of your necks, and make but an interior survey of your good selves. ~William Shakespeare, “Coriolanus”
It’s terrifying to see someone inside of whom a vital spring seems to have been broken. It’s particularly terrifying to see him in your mirror. ~Mignon McLaughlin
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. ~Douglas Adams
We run away all the time to avoid coming face to face with ourselves. ~Author Unknown
The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one’s opinion but rather to know it. ~André Maurois
It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, “Go away, I’m looking for the truth,” and so it goes away. Puzzling. ~Robert M. Pirsig
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. ~Jean de La Fontaine
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want. ~Ben Stein
Driving down the wrong road and knowing it, The fork years behind, how many have thought To pull up on the shoulder and leave the car Empty, strike out across the fields; and how many Are still mazed among dock and thistle, Seeking the road they should have taken? ~Damon Knight
Those who are brutally honest are seldom so with themselves. ~Mignon McLaughlin
Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it. ~Buddha
By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear. ~George Herbert
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