Quotes on self discovery
We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.
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Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
If you haven't had at least a slight poetic crack in the heart, you have been cheated by nature.
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Phyllis Battelle Quotes
If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.
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James A. Michener Quotes
Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something.
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Carl G. Jung Quotes
Like an old gold-panning prospector, you must resign yourself to digging up a lot of sand from which you will later patiently wash out a few minute particles of gold ore.
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Dorothy Bryant Quotes
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.
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Henry David Thoreau Quotes
Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.
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Timothy Leary Quotes
The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.
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Julien Green Quotes
The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.
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Richard Bach Quotes
Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.
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Arthur Christopher Benson Quotes
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.
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Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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.
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Anaïs Nin Quotes
In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
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Alice Walker Quotes
Every one of us has in him a continent of undiscovered character. Blessed is he who acts the Columbus to his own soul.
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Author Unknown Quotes
There is deep wisdom within our very flesh, if we can only come to our senses and feel it.
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Elizabeth A. Behnke Quotes
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Alan Watts Quotes
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.
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Robert M. Pirsig Quotes
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
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George Moore Quotes
When your heart speaks, take good notes.
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Judith Campbell Quotes
I recommend to every one of my readers, the keeping a journal of their lives for one week, and setting down punctually their whole series of employments during that space of time. This kind of self-examination would give them a true state of themselves, and incline them to consider seriously what they are about. One day would rectify the omissions of another, and make a man weigh all those indifferent actions, which, though they are easily forgotten, must certainly be accounted for.
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Joseph Addison Quotes
It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself. Makes you wonder what else you can do that you've forgotten about.
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Alan Ball Quotes
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
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Confucius Quotes
To the question of your life you are the answer, and to the problems of your life you are the solution.
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Joe Cordare Quotes
For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipators.
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Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes
In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of persons, and of oneself.
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André Gide Quotes
There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives.
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Josephine Hart Quotes
Quality begins on the inside and then works its way out.
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Bob Moawad Quotes
To be too conscious is an illness - a real thoroughgoing illness.
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Fyodor Dostoevski Quotes
That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.
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Madeleine L'Engle Quotes
Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
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Wallace Stevens Quotes
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
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Clifton Fadiman Quotes
No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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Thomas Mann Quotes
When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.
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Clifton Fadiman Quotes
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.
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William Butler Yeats Quotes
Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to point A very fast. People living at point C, being a point directly in between, are often given to wonder what's so great about point A that so many people from point B are so keen to get there and what's so great about point B that so many people from point A are so keen to get there. They often wish that people would just once and for all work out where the hell they wanted to be.
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Douglas Adams Quotes
There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.
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Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
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Ben Stein Quotes
Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves.
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Robert Neelly Bellah Quotes
Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
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Henry David Thoreau Quotes
Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.
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Lorraine Hansberry Quotes
It is only when we silent the blaring sounds of our daily existence that we can finally hear the whispers of truth that life reveals to us, as it stands knocking on the doorsteps of our hearts.
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K.T. Jong Quotes
The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
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Muhammed Ali Quotes
If you resist reading what you disagree with, how will you ever acquire deeper insights into what you believe? The things most worth reading are precisely those that challenge our convictions.
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Author Unknown Quotes
I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.
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James Baldwin Quotes
We run away all the time to avoid coming face to face with ourselves.
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Author Unknown Quotes
The truth is that it is natural, as well as necessary, for every man to be a vagabond occasionally.
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Samuel H. Hammond Quotes
We have five senses in which we glory and which we recognize and celebrate, senses that constitute the sensible world for us. But there are other senses - secret senses, sixth senses, if you will - equally vital, but unrecognized, and unlauded.
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Oliver Sacks Quotes
The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.
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André Maurois Quotes
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.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky Quotes
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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George Eliot Quotes
The value of identity of course is that so often with it comes purpose.
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Richard Grant Quotes
There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.
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Carol Shields Quotes
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
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Douglas Adams Quotes
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.
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Alan Alda Quotes
Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, he wants to reestablish them. Ignorance irritates him and knowledge cloys.
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Henri Amiel Quotes
Resolve to be thyself; and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Matthew Arnold Quotes
Truth hurts - not the searching after; the running from!
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John Eyberg Quotes
Life ceases to be a fraction and becomes an integer.
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Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes
Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.
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Erich Fromm Quotes
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
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James A. Froude Quotes
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.
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George Michael Quotes
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.
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Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it's dark.
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Zen Proverb Quotes
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will find them gradually, without noticing it, and live along some distant day into the answer.
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Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes