Discover Oneself Quotes

#1. To tell the truth about oneself, to discover oneself near at hand, is not easy.

Virginia Woolf

#2. In chanting, one tries to find one's own sound, literally, and then to go within that-to find the sounds within one's own sound, to bring out that which is within, to go into, explore and discover oneself.

Jill Purce

#3. All great and famous people understand that the chief priority in their life is to discover oneself, ones calling and to devote one's life to its fulfilment

Sunday Adelaja

#4. I have always been unsatisfied with life as most people live it. Always I want to live more intensely and richly. why muck and conceal one's true longings and loves, when by speaking of them one might find someone to understand them, and by acting on them one might discover oneself?

Everett Ruess

#5. I believe one has to escape oneself to discover oneself.

Rabih Alameddine

#6. To discover the original plan of God is to manifest the work of creation

Sunday Adelaja

#7. To love oneself is to struggle to rediscover and maintain your uniqueness

Leo Buscaglia

#8. It is always reassuring to discover that great writers are as fallible as oneself. W.B. Yeats once failed to obtain an academic post in Dublin because he misspelt the word 'professor' on his application.

Terry Eagleton

#9. Retracing the various episodes of one's life, one is disconcerted to discover that one was not as noble as one thought oneself at the time.

Phyllis Bentley

#10. The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.

D.H. Lawrence

#11. Honor yourself first and you will discover the boundless breadth of your Passion Zone.

Heidi Reagan

#12. It was marvelous to cross borders, to let oneself go within other cultures, discover the provisional nature of what I had taken for absolute.

Elena Ferrante

#13. One has to discover everything for oneself. And get over it all alone.

Tove Jansson

#14. It is necessary to dig deep within oneself to discover the hidden grain of steel called will.

Ryan Shay

#15. Journalism has not only its social stimulations but its aesthetic virtues. An invitation into print, from however suspect a source, is an opportunity to make something beautiful, to discover within oneself a treasure that would otherwise have remained buried.

John Updike

#16. Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study one self in action with another person. Relationship is a process of self evaluation and self revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself - to be is to be related.

Bruce Lee

#17. When writing of oneself one should show no mercy. Yet why at the first attempt to discover one's own truth does all inner strength seem to melt away in floods of self-pity and tenderness and rising tears ...

Georges Bernanos

#18. Be less religious and discover for yourself how to be intimate with God.

Sunday Adelaja

#19. 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.

Blaise Pascal

#20. Since life is an ever evolving process, one should flow in this process and discover how to actualize and expand oneself.

Bruce Lee

#21. To find one's purpose is to discover one's worth, discern one's direction, wholly dedicate oneself to the journey, and forge an unbending determination that I will not leave the world the way I found it. This week's blog outlines the finding of our purpose.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#22. Facts, and facts alone, are the foundation of science ... When one devotes oneself to experimental research it is in order to augment the sum of known facts, or to discover their mutual relations.

Francois Magendie

#23. We can surmount the anger we feel. To find oneself like a young tree inside a tomb is to discover the power to crack the tomb and grow up to any height.

Elizabeth Bowen

#24. Of course our most important role as a parent is to have our children know that they are loved and worthy. Even more importantly, it's to help them discover, and fan the flames of whatever it is that they are enthusiastic about!

Steve Karagiannis

#25. We don't fall in love with someone. We discover love in someone!

Avijeet Das

#26. It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far.

Cornelia Otis Skinner

#27. I explored because I was feeling really crappy, and I wanted to know why

Steven Magee

#28. If you plan to be happy, you will find at least one reason to be happy. Real happiness is never accidental. Discover happiness on your terms.

Olarewaju Oladipo

#29. It is only when you take responsibility for your life that you discover how powerful you truly are

Allanah Hunt

#30. At the end of oneself was the best place to discover the Lord at work.

Robin Lee Hatcher

#31. Giving oneself permission to write to begin with is the first enormous challenge. But you discover that this permission involves a requirement: To write about things that are difficult because they are, in fact, your subject.

Jonathan Galassi

#32. There is greatness in everyone.
Look within yourself and discover your greatness.

Lailah Gifty Akita