Quotes on Discovering Your True Self

One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, wants to re-establish them. Ignorance irritates him and knowledge cloys.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

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.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already possess. Vocation does not come from a voice �out there� calling me to be something I am not. It comes from a voice �in here� calling me to be the person I was born to be, to fulfill the original selfhood given me at birth by God.

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.

I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly _x000D_ themselves.

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.

Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.