Quotes on Discovering Yourself

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.

We are empty shells if we do not possess, if we do not fill our life with furniture, with music, with knowledge, with this or that. And that shell makes a lot of noise, and that noise we call living, and with that we are satisfied.

We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

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.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people's opinions who don't know themselves.

Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open.

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

You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.