Quotes on Self Discovery

If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet.

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

Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.

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

The most important relationship we can all have is the one you have with yourself, the most important journey you can take is one of self-discovery. To know yourself, you must spend time with yourself, you must not be afraid to be alone. Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Strive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your own heart.

The secret of concentration is the secret of self-discovery. You reach inside yourself to discover your personal resources, and what it takes to match them to the challenge.

Writing a novel is an act of self-annihilation as much as self-discovery. You can kill whole appetites and flood whole depths while plumbing them, but if you are serious about it you also get to put something into the world that wasn't quite there before.

Living is being born slowly. It would be a little too easy if we could borrow ready-made souls.

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

The life which is not examined is not worth living.

Truths cannot be acquired from words out of other people's mouths. Before Truths can be internalized, they must come from one's own realizations and practices. Through a lifetime of personal practice, human beings are capable of revealing all of the secrets of the cosmic essence. You are your own best judge.

Self-observation is the first step of inner unfolding.

Come to the Root of the Root of your Self

Listen. Make a way for yourself inside yourself. Stop looking in the other way of looking.

You must begin to trust yourself sometime. I suggest you do it now. If you do not then you will forever be looking to others to prove your own merit to you, and you will never be satisfied. You will always be asking others what to do, and at the same time, resenting those from whom you seek such aid.

If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions.

The greatest discoveries are those that shed light unto ourselves.

An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.

Look into the depths of your own soul and learn first to know yourself, then you will understand why this illness was bound to come upon you and perhaps you will thenceforth avoid falling ill.

We may go to the moon, but that' s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.