Self Discovery Quotes

She wasn't tracking down her father to learn more about him. She was tracking him down to learn more about herself.

~ Brad Meltzer

Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

~ G.i. Gurdjieff

Once you've recognized your own limits, you've raised yourself to a higher level of being, since you're closer to the real you...

~ Banana Yoshimoto

The need to prove who you are will vanish once you know who you are.

~ Danielle Pierre

We stay busy so we don't have to admit we don't have all the answers. After long enough with our constant distractions, we end our search for them. And God. Soon enough, we'll all come to realize we can't be God. We'll settle for telling ourselves we can. Or we'll just make one up.

~ Brian Krans

Storytelling creates a healing serum. The thematic unguent of our personal story represents a fusion of the ineffable truths that each of us must discover within ourselves.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

All roads taken lead us only to ourselves.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Just because you feel lost doesn't mean that you're doing something wrong. Feeling certain that you are correct in every decision and situation is an addiction. If you think that the journey of self-discovery will bring you more solid facts and certainties about yourself and the world, you will be frustrated. The more you see, the more lost you will feel. That is natural. The more you discover of yourself, the more confused you will become. This is natural. The wiser you get, the more you will see that there are many paths walked by just as many people, and that just because yours is different from someone else's doesn't mean one of you is wrong. This is natural. Over time, you will develop humility, compassion, and a higher tolerance for confusion. If you allow the feeling of being lost to drive you into a search for absolute truths and correct answers, you may feel more secure when you get there, but in reality, you will be taking a step back. Allow yourself to be lost, and you will see so much more of the forest of your soul than if you beeline back for the trail. Explore. Get lost. Embrace the inevitability of confusion.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

For awakened human beings, there was no obligation—none, none, none at all—except this: to search for yourself, become sure of yourself, feel your way forward along your own path, wherever it led.

~ Hermann Hesse

If I were surrounded by people who always approved of me, I wouldn’t need such a deep relationship with my own sense of right and wrong. And you know what that means? It means that other people’s approval is actually a hindrance, more than a helper, when it comes to self-discovery.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

Self-questioning and a desire to gain self-understanding is the fêted act of humankind.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

There is no pre-mapped intellectual topology path leading to truth. Truth is a process of conducting a searching investigatory dialogue with oneself in an attempt to examine and discern the contents of a person’s own mind. Every person must ask himself or herself what is essential in life.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

With every passing day, we add a page to our personal story, an illustrative script that casts our character shaped by an implacable external environment and fashioned by our supple state of inwardness.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Life has a tendency to provide a person with what they need in order to grow. Our beliefs, what we value in life, provide the roadmap for the type of life that we experience. A period of personal unhappiness reveals that our values are misplaced and we are on the wrong path. Unless a person changes their values and ideas, they will continue to experience discontentment.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Self-mastery involves a studious account of all aspects of human life and developing a comprehensive philosophy for living without fear or anxiety throughout the remaining years of a person’s life. A person must live within the limits of the human condition, which does not justify giving into all of our destructive impulses or living a pleasurable and guiltless life. Self-mastery does not require a person to live a life without passion; rather, it entails channeling vibrant personal passions into living in a virtuous manner of created beings.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Understanding of oneself is the first act in establishing a transformative philosophy for living a vivid and a reflective existence. Knowing thy self is essential to designing and instigating a meaningful life that is self-directed instead of exclusively controlled by innate traits and external determinates.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Self-discovery changes everything, including your relationships with people. When you find your authentic self, those who loved your mask are disappointed. you may end up alone, but you don’t need to stay alone. While it’s painful to sever old connections, it’s not a tragedy. it’s an opportunity. Now, you can find people who understand the importance of looking for truth and being authentic. Now you can find people who want to connect deeply, like you’ve always wanted to, instead of constant small talk and head games. Now you can have real intimacy. Now, you can find your tribe.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

Our inner wisdom is persistent, but quiet. It will always whisper, but it will never stop knocking at your door.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

And I have wondered often, was I master in my soul, or did I become the slave of my own blade?

~ Diana Gabaldon

He went to India to find himself last year, but evidently he wasn't there, and he came back empty-handed.

~ Craig Mclay

Within you, you will find everything you need to be complete.

~ Bryant Mcgill

I was speaking without thinking about it first, not hesitating, just saying what I felt first.

~ Morgan Matson

Our Western society is so deeply divided between these two approaches (moralism, self-discovery) that hardly anyone can conceive of any other way to live. If you criticize or distance yourself from one, everyone assumes you have chosen to follow the other, because each of these approaches tends to divide the whole world into two basic groups. The moral conformists say: the immoral people -- the people who 'do their own thing' -- are the problem with the world, and moral people are the solution. The advocates of self-discovery say: The bigoted peole -- the people who say, 'We have the Truth' -- are the problem with the world, and progressive people are the solution.

~ Timothy J. Keller

When I’m at the bottom looking up, the main question may not be ‘how do I get out of this hole?’ In reality, the main question might be ‘how do I get rid of the shovel that I used to dig it?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Simple was never that simple. Still, the self-questioning did take some time to reach him. And if there's anything worse than self-questioning coming too early in life, it's self-questioning coming too late.

~ Philip Roth

do not get back to the womb u came from bcos u need to grow up

~ Ikechukwu Joseph

Discover d strength u are made of not d worst that are coming

~ Ikechukwu Joseph

When you marry you marry the known and unknown man or woman

~ Ikechukwu Joseph

A critical point: Is an inter-phase between crisis and normalcy, life and death, danger and safety, failure and success.You decide what nextike

~ Ikechukwu Joseph

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

To know your purpose, you have to find yourself

~ Sunday Adelaja

These masked men were going to bring me to a cleaner place, where things were more sharply distinguished from one another and where I would finally have the space to figure out who I was without other people nudging me all the time into shapes they thought I should have.

~ Alexandra Kleeman

If you think you can stand to know what you’re made of, try kneeling before God.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Sometimes I feel that I am destined for greater things, and then again sometimes I suspect that I am just an extra in an epic movie.

~ Shon Mehta

The reason why man seeks for happiness is not because happiness is his sustenance, but because happiness is his own being; therefore in seeking for happiness, man is seeking for himself.

~ Hazrat Inayat Khan

Life is love.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The only journey is the one within.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

The landscape started hard, sharp black mountains over my shoulder and thirsty young saguaros hugging patchy dirt. Gradually it let go, began to green on me a little. I crossed a river, watched succulents get fatter and farmland start to wave, hoarding the blue above and the few clouds it had to spare.I knew the route somehow, knew the curves, the directions, the exact way to go. I knew it the way you know the stars are still up in the sky even though white sun obscures them. Everything that had happened before Lukeville and Sonoita began to liquify in memory, feeling more like fiction than personal history. Funerals and pain, girlfriends and mothers, roommates and priests all tumble away with the desert behind me. The only thing that's real is the road I see ahead. The only person in my life is the man sitting silently beside me. The place I'm going is the only place I've ever wanted to go.

~ Laurie Perez

I searched for a deeper existence. What I found was myself. The next moment the journey towards self discovery began all over again.

~ Matthew Donnelly

Meaning bad isn't the issue. Meaning you do what you do. Not without consequences for other people, of course, sometimes very grave ones. But it's not very helpful to regard your choices as a series of right or wrong moves. They don't define you as much as you define them

~ Ann Packer