Quotes About Discovering Self

#1. I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value, but to have someone else to point out your mistakes is a shortcut of the process.

Shelby Foote

#2. They say the eyes are the windows to our soul; glass gateways that do little to conceal our true self. Yet, for me, they're also the narrators of our heart and give insight to our well-kept secrets... secrets I wanted to remain hidden.

K.M. Golland

#3. Learning how to recognize and act on your Inner Knowing is the greatest tool for discovering what's important now by living in the present.

John Kuypers

#4. Discovering your identity is the key to fulfilling your destiny

Sunday Adelaja

#5. No matter our size or shape, everyone deserves a safe place in this world." ~ from BIG SMALL DOG, a children's story about overcoming bullying and adversity, and discovering unity and friendship.

Suzanne V. Marshall

#6. Letting go of who you're supposed to be and discovering who you really are is a journey of many experiences, but certainty is not one of them. No matter how long you wait, it'll never feel safe enough. Plunge in anyway.

Vironika Tugaleva

#7. Learning is self discovering.
Learning is great gift to thyself.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. [M]y discovering my own identity doesn't mean that I work it out in isolation, but that I negotiate it through dialogue, partly overt, partly internal, with others.

Charles Taylor

#9. World Class leaders know the secret to motivating themselves and others is discovering what they will fight for when the going gets rough.

Steve Siebold

#10. You don't find happiness, you make happiness.

David Leonhardt

#11. What you discover on your own is always more exciting than what someone else discovers for you - it's like the marriage between romantic love and an arranged marriage.

Terrence Rafferty

#12. For me to be a saint means to be myself. Therefore the problem of sanctity and salvation is in fact the problem of finding out who I am and of discovering my true self.

Thomas Merton

#13. Such is the conscious master, and man can only thus become by discovering within himself the laws of thought; which discovery is totally a matter of application, self analysis, and experience.

James Allen

#14. Discovering the truth of who you are is the only way to love and care for yourself.

Vironika Tugaleva

#15. By making yourself a life-long leaner you'll keep discovering new and exciting things about yourself and others.

Rachel Robins

#16. Understanding and discovering yourself is a critical aspect of your life

Sunday Adelaja

#17. Both therapy and friendship possessed the common denominator of discovering a self ...

Dorothy Gilman

#18. Inspiration is the quickest shortcut to discovering and practicing embracing our authentic selves.

Elaina Marie

#19. Remove your blindfold-you can see bread or gold where others see stone

Ikechukwu Joseph

#20. Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be.

Robert Breault

#21. It was like discovering that some part of you wasn't yours at all. And it made me wonder what else I couldn't claim.

Sarah Dessen

#22. Marcie: I know you're still wounded. Danny, you have to let it go. That is what this mind game is all about, discovering who we are.
Humans lie to themselves all the time. There should be no disgrace in being human, that is what I believe.

Andrew Neff

#23. Where art is concerned, it is the process of creating - exploring, discovering, and experimenting
that has the greatest value. Through self-expression and creativity, children's skills will develop naturally, and their ability to create will soar.

MaryAnn F. Kohl

#24. God created you for His high purpose, discovering and understanding that that purpose is important

Sunday Adelaja

#25. You need to invest time in understanding and discovering yourself

Sunday Adelaja

#26. Dedicate time to discovering yourself and find out the purpose of your creation

Sunday Adelaja

#27. Discovering passion and purpose requires figuring out what works and what doesn't. Mature, successful people establish their on rules. These rules are measured by only one standard: do they work?

Robert A. Glover

#28. The process of discovering your greatest self is of refinement, not adding. The best way to reconnect with your freedom is to look at the rules you have that govern and hinder it.

Steve Maraboli

#29. We spend our lives asking the question, 'What do people want me to do? Who do they want me to be?' But this is a betrayal of our inner truth. We should be investing our lives in the pursuit of discovering who we are and what we were created to do.

Elizabeth Grace Saunders

#30. Knowing oneself is not so much a question of discovering what is present in one's self, but rather the creation of who one wants to be.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#31. There is only one problem on which all my existence, my peace, my happiness depend: to discover myself in discovering God. If I find Him I will find myself and if I find my true self I will find Him.

Thomas Merton

#32. Loneliness is designed to help you discover who you are ... and to stop looking outside yourself for your worth.

Mandy Hale

#33. He can practise self-examination for an hour without discovering any of those facts about himself which are perfectly clear to anyone who has ever lived in the same house with him or worked in the same office.

C.S. Lewis

#34. Wanting to reform the world without discovering one's true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.

Ramana Maharshi

#35. Therapy, like life, is a process -- a journey toward greater self-awareness and healing -- where the in-the-moment experience is often as enriching as discovering one's destination.

Jacqueline Simon Gunn

#36. If we're really committed to growth, we never stop discovering new dimensions of self and self-expression .

Oprah Winfrey

#37. The Element is about discovering your self, and you can't do this if you're trapped in a compulsion to conform. You can't be yourself in a swarm.

Ken Robinson

#38. The bulk of life is discovering who you are - and then reconciling that with who you wish you were.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#39. What is the nature of that place where our original self is one with its longing to explore its own deepest possibilities, and where discovering the treasures waiting there is the same as fulfilling our purpose for being?

Guy Finley