Discovery Of Oneself Quotes

#1. The real meaning of travel, like that of a conversation by the fireside, is the discovery of oneself through contact with other people, and its condition is self-commitment in the dialogue.

Paul Tournier

#2. I believe that, through the act of living, the discovery of oneself is made concurrently with the discovery of the world around us, which can mold us, but which can also be affected by us. A balance must be established between these two worlds - the one inside us and the one outside us.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

#3. If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.

Kristin Hannah

#4. I am a wanderer and mountain-climber, said he to his heart, I love not the plains, and it seemeth I cannot long sit still.
And whatever may still overtake me as fate and experience - a wandering will be therein, and a mountain-climbing: in the end one experienceth only oneself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#5. Discovering life in oneself is to become all you can be

Sunday Adelaja

#6. Art and morality are, with certain provisos ... one. Their essence is the same. The essence of both of them is love. Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality.

Iris Murdoch

#7. 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

#8. For it was through books that she felt her life to be unjudged Look at all of the great mix-ups, messes, confinement, and double-dealings in Shakespeare, she thought.Identities disguised continually, in a combative dance of illusion and discovery.

Louise Erdrich

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

Heidi Reagan

#10. The greatest discovery is to find a hero within oneself that will choose life over death; and fight for hope through despair to possess the will to live.

Ellen J. Barrier

#11. When I encourage someone, I see it as an investment in their resilience.

Steve Karagiannis

#12. A writer must be willing to leave oneself behind in order to explore new territories of the mind and unearth primordial truths that startle and frighten us.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#13. We must be our own authentically unique truth, and question who we are, what created us, and what processes within us are alien and externally created.

Bryant McGill

#14. It is wisdom to know others. It is enlightenment to know oneself.

Laozi

#15. When it was time to board my flight, I took one last glance back. I knew that I had everything with me so it was not a "make sure I have everything" glance. It was more like a parting glance to Philadelphia, my home, America- for I would not be coming back for ten months. (Ch 5- Twenty in Paris)

Andrea Bouchaud

#16. Rereading the works of a favorite author and, once again, learning something new shows me they are not done with me yet.

Garry Fitchett

#17. Idealistic notions that guide a younger person frequently prove unsustainable. Concluding any stage of life demands that a person rebuilds oneself after living destroys our ideological beliefs.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#18. It is always difficult to give oneself up; few persons anywhere ever succeed in doing so, and even fewer transcend the possessive stage to know love for what it actually is: a perpetual discovery, and immersion in the waters of reality, an unending re-creation.

Octavio Paz

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

Sunday Adelaja

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

Steven Magee

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

#22. The exploration of oneself is usually also an exploration of the world at large, of other writers, a process of comparison with oneself with others, discoveries of kinships, gradual illumination of one's own potentialities.

Colin Wilson

#23. One discovers weeping - one's weeping personality - only upon weeping. It is a strange discovery, not only to others but to oneself

Yann Martel

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

Rabih Alameddine

#25. The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

Paul Valery

#26. An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left.

Lawrence Durrell

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

Allanah Hunt

#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. Operate from ur strength and not ur weakness.everyone has weaknesses

Ikechukwu Joseph

#30. We must step out of our digital avatars, and come together and have face-to-face dialogue as often as possible.

Bryant McGill

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

Avijeet Das

#32. 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

#33. He wasn't a whole person any longer, but only half of something not yet made.

Diana Gabaldon

#34. Abstract work, if one wishes to do it well, must be allowed to destroy one's humanity; one raises a monument which is at the same time a tomb, in which, voluntarily, one slowly inters oneself.

Bertrand Russell

#35. In the past few years, I have made a thrilling discovery ... that until one is over sixty, one can never really learn the secret of living. One can then begin to live, not simply with the intense part of oneself, but with one's entire being.

Ellen Glasgow

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

Sunday Adelaja

#37. I have rubbed, knocked and brushed up against a thousand windows, trying to get an image.

Anthony Liccione