Quotes About Self Discovery

#1. New York had pushed and bent and bullied, driving me underground to sort out the madness and sculpt my Being with my own hands in self-discovery on its cold pottery wheel and in the white heat of its kiln. The City enabled me to learn who I really was, as a pixelated man and member of Humanity.

David B. Lentz

#2. Self-discovery is the process of learning about who you are as an individual, independent from your friends, family, employer, or nation.

Scott Berkun

#3. what this instruction cannot give is the deepest benefit of any art, be it of making, or of knowing, or of experiencing: which is self-expression and self-discovery.

John Fowles

#4. Books are a great equalizer. You may not have the money to travel the world, but with a library card as your passport your horizons for exploration and self-discovery are unlimited.

Shireen Dodson

#5. Love is what stands in the way of self discovery, try not to find, it will find you.

Auliq Ice

#6. It takes courage ... to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives.

Marianne Williamson

#7. You are not creating a new you; you are releasing a hidden you. The process is one of self discovery. The hidden you that wants to emerge is in perfect balance.

Deepak Chopra

#8. Service is the key to self-discovery of full strength

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. There are two sides to self-discovery, as in most things, an outer more popular side and an inner side. The popular side presents more of a simplified form.

Frederick Lenz

#10. The force that drives the green fuse, as Dylan Thomas said, cannot be understood. So self-discovery is to accept your daily meditation, to observe yourself meditating and not be concerned with the results.

Frederick Lenz

#11. The answers to your problems lie all around you. The keys to your self-discovery are waiting to be found in each sunset, each pair of eyes, each breath of fresh air. Listen to the symphony of life and you will hear yourself. Find the beauty of nature and you have found your soul.

Vironika Tugaleva

#12. When I do something, it is all about self-discovery. I want to learn and discover my own limits.

Larry Ellison

#13. Those who condemn the self-righteous for the sake of self-discovery do so with ironic self-righteousness.

Timothy Keller

#14. Self-discovery is so important in identity processing: who you hang out with, what clothes you wear, what shows you see. As a kid, I found out about things through friends. I would go to hardcore shows with 50 people.

Steve Aoki

#15. Without self-discovery," Hahn wrote, extending an idea of Nietzsche's, "a person may still have self-confidence, but it is a self-confidence built on ignorance and it melts in the face of heavy burdens.

Andrew Solomon

#16. adversity is a great tool to self discovery.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#17. The camera is first a means of self-discovery and a means of self-growth. The artist has one thing to say - himself.

Minor White

#18. ...one of the worst things about being a parent, for me, is the self-discovery, the being face to face with one's secret insanity and brokenness and rage.

Anne Lamott

#19. High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society.

Carl Hart

#20. Life is an endless process of self-discovery.

John W. Gardner

#21. As I go forth today and embark on the wonderful experience of living, I am on a journey of self-discovery and also of the discovery of the self hidden in everyone and the Power in back of everything.

Ernest Holmes

#22. When painters feel the need to make a shift toward self-discovery, they turn to black and white for a time.

Barnett Newman

#23. I like Miracles. They inspire me. Miracles are the fun of enlightenment. When a teacher does a miracle, and everyone sees it, they have faith in what the teacher has to say about self-discovery.

Frederick Lenz

#24. By introducing you to yourself it enables you to discover for yourself the true meaning of life and thus enrich every moment of it. Such self-discovery can lead to greater understanding of fellow-beings and therefore to true love.

Venkatesananda Saraswati

#25. A great deal of humility is necessary in the process of self-discovery. Humility is the ability to accept what and who you are at this moment.

Frederick Lenz

#26. Women have been denied access to advanced methods of self discovery throughout the ages.

Frederick Lenz

#27. You've got to make a person aware of how miserable they really are and show them how happy they can be. Otherwise, why should they seek this nebulous goal called self-discovery.

Frederick Lenz

#28. For us to go to Italy and to penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery

D.H. Lawrence

#29. 'Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind' was born out of my own journey of self-discovery within both my personal and professional life.

T. Harv Eker

#30. Every new self-discovery leads you to more wholeness, opens your heart, makes you humble, and a better person to serve and love others." Page 8

Assegid Habtewold

#31. Do not ignore inspiration, it is your guide to self discovery.

E'yen A. Gardner

#32. Souls have different journeys. The best thing to know is, not what everybody else does, but what you do. Self-discovery essentially is finding your own dharma, your own rhythm.

Frederick Lenz

#33. The greatest self are self-improvement, self-development and self-discovery.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#34. These games inspire laughter, spontaneity, ensemble building, physical and vocal expression, concentration, self-discovery/reflection, self-esteem, and, ultimately, I believe, good health. They get adults, and teenagers too, playing again, which is no small feat.

Hannah Fox

#35. If you are trying to aid people in the process of self-discovery, what you have to do is confound them with so many concepts that are contradictory, yet each make complete sense in its own right.

Frederick Lenz

#36. Always do your best to be yourself. Learn to listen to your inner-voice. This is your true authenticity; this is who you really are. Self-discovery of your inner-self is the path to your destiny ...

James A. Murphy

#37. Bioenergetics is an adventure in self-discovery. It differs from similar explorations into the nature of the self by attempting to understand the human personality in terms of the human body. Most previous explorations focused their investigations on the mind.

Alexander Lowen

#38. A theatrical spectacle is inherent whenever family members congregate and reacquaint themselves with powerful universal themes educed from homecomings including hugs, food, drink, conversation, politics, games, music, conflict, terror, mercy, smiles, tears, prayers, misfortune, and self-discovery.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#39. No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery - the source of truth.

Barry Long

#40. Usually all my tattoos came at good times. A tattoo is something permanent when you've made a self-discovery, or something you've come to a conclusion about.

Angelina Jolie

#41. Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone.

Octavio Paz

#42. That's what self-discovery seems to mean to most people. You're going to beat yourself up. You're going to reduce what you're supposed to be and do to a set of rules so you can defy them, or so you can perform them and feel smug.

Frederick Lenz

#43. For a justice of this ultimate tribunal [the U.S. Supreme Court], the opportunity for self-discovery and the occasion for self-revelation is great.

Abe Fortas

#44. 'Huge' is a show about self-discovery and follows kids at a weight loss camp. My character is shy, so when she meets Nikki Blonsky's character Willamena Rader, who's not, they become friends.

Raven Goodwin

#45. That wonderful and terribly frightening journey of self-discovery. That process of growth, of being an independent person, of learning who you are and what you want from life, is the real secret of life, happiness and beauty.

Diane Von Furstenberg

#46. You need to search your awareness and consider the limitless possibilities of existence in all things and not be so narrow-minded in your self-discovery.

Frederick Lenz

#47. Once you are present in the Energyfield of Self-discovery, it's like you are a piece of ice in warm water. The warm water is the Self. The ice is the mind. The warm water is not fighting with the ice. The ice can not resist the melting. It is a natural and fatal attraction.

Mooji

#48. The magical tapestry that 'Midnight's Children' unfolded became a part of a journey of self-discovery as I spent time close to my roots during the shooting.

Satya Bhabha

#49. Gaining insight into one's underlying motives, it seems, is more like a belief conversion than a self-discovery process

Albert Bandura

#50. Art is a great means of self-discovery. One of the things that appealed to me in the beginning was that it was a great way to get girlfriends.

Malcolm Morley

#51. A war is an incarnation. A battle is a day of your life. So we do one day at a time in self-discovery.

Frederick Lenz

#52. Rules for Self Discovery: 1. What we want most; 2. What we think about most; 3. How we use our money; 4. What we do with our leisure time; 5. The company we enjoy; 6. Who and what we admire; 7. What we laugh at.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#53. Understanding your strengths and weaknesses is an unending process of self-discovery and creative evolution. Real success depends on being true to what fascinates you.

Paul O'Brien

#54. I thought with all this freedom and self-discovery and expression of our love stuff that we could finally stop with the whole Zen master wisdom and practical advice crap.

Richelle Mead

#55. ...he lived with the consequences of self discovery and i suspected this was a more exacting hardship than anything the world might have worked out for him...

Don DeLillo

#56. All education is self-discovery.

Ray Bradbury

#57. How is it [, then] that the leaders of our society have seen fit to try to eliminate this one very important means of learning and self-discovery, this means which has been used, respected, and honored for thousands of years, in every human culture of which we have a record?

Alexander Shulgin

#58. Adversity is an opportunity for self-discovery.

John C. Maxwell

#59. The purported insight achieved by the patient is not the product of a process of veridical self-discovery, but rather reflects the patient's conversion to the therapist's interpretation.

Adolf Grunbaum

#60. One trend I see is the rejection of growth for self-discovery and the pursuit of authentic community. So we keep whittling our spiritual community to a smaller and smaller and more exclusive inner circle. The problem is if the diagnoses are wrong, so will be the cure.

Erwin McManus

#61. Love looks to the eternal. Love is indeed "ecstasy," not in the sense of a moment of intoxication, but rather as a journey, an on-going exodus out of the closed inward-looking self toward its liberation through self-giving ... toward authentic self-discovery and indeed the discovery of God ...

Pope Benedict XVI

#62. Nothing you can do can prevent your death. Nothing you can do can prevent your rebirth. To step beyond life and death is self-discovery.

Frederick Lenz

#63. Take the level of dedication that anyone had to get to the top in any field, and apply it to self-discovery. Except that when you get to the top of anything else, it washes away. You will die. The only thing that stays with you forever is your awareness.

Frederick Lenz

#64. I think in particularly with young kids who don't have a lot of positive influences, pop culture almost becomes a larger part of that self-discovery and how you define yourself.

Terry Gross

#65. Emotional turmoil can be a powerful catalyst to reconnect us with our divine nature. It propels us into a journey of self discovery and urges us to learn how to love and accept our entire being.

Debbie Ford

#66. Self discovery is something you cannot buy

Jan Somers

#67. A leader will find it difficult to articulate a coherent vision unless it expresses his core values, his basic identity ... one must first embark on the formidable journey of self-discovery in order to create a vision with authentic soul.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#68. Art is not just ornamental, an enhancement of life. It is a path in itself, a way out of the predictable and conventional ... a map to self discovery.

Gabrielle Roth

#69. Tonight was definitely an eye opener, but a reminder of how I use to be & why. Self discovery happens at such random times.

April Mae Monterrosa

#70. Painting is self-discovery. You arrive at the image through the act of painting.

Adolph Gottlieb

#71. After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

Sophia Loren

#72. I don't think there is a right approach to teaching self discovery. Every situation is unique.

Frederick Lenz

#73. Self-discovery is a sacred knowledge

Lailah Gifty Akita

#74. Self discovery doesn't not seek to bring you answers about your personal life or philosophically comfort you about life and death. What it does is bring you into reality as perception itself.

Frederick Lenz

#75. Self discovery is the most empowering time of your life, you remember who you are and you become the best version of yourself but what they forget to tell you is, to get to a point of pleasure you must face the pain.

Nikki Rowe

#76. There is really no practical help that one can offer; it is a matter of self-discovery, of one's own convictions, or working with one's own work; your style is what seems natural to you. It is a long process of discovery, one that never ends. I am working at it, and will be as long as I live.

Truman Capote

#77. Love is the only rule in self-discovery. If you've forgotten that rule, you've forgotten everything. It's not what you can get; it's what you can give.

Frederick Lenz

#78. Unfortunately, in self-discovery, you get the culty types who want the father figure or mother figure to tell them everything to do. They don't want to do any work. They want to hang on your energy and try to drain it.

Frederick Lenz

#79. As you go through your journey of self-healing and self-discovery, it may seem like a long stretch of darkness to get through, but just like a tunnel, know that there is light and freedom at the end of it.

Tiffany L. Jackson

#80. 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.

Arnold Palmer

#81. Self-discovery is life recovery.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#82. It is my experience that if a person practices self discovery with intent, they will be successful. Success is an outer sign that they are channeling energy correctly.

Frederick Lenz

#83. Not the free individual but the lost individual; not Independence but isolation; not self-discovery but self-obsession; not the conquer but to be conquered; these are major states of mind in contemporary imaginative literature.

Robert A. Nisbet

#84. Self discovery is the best investment that you can make.

Michele Scholz-Evers

#85. An artist is an explorer. He has to begin by self-discovery and by observation of his own procedure. After that he must not feel under any constraint.

Henri Matisse

#86. Writing is not just a process of creation. It is also a process of self-discovery

Cristina Istrati

#87. The anti-pleasure movement in self-discovery is very strong. I have big news for them, if they ever get to enlightenment, which is unlikely the way they're approaching it, they're going to find that enlightenment is very pleasurable.

Frederick Lenz

#88. The quest for self-discovery is the desire to know thy soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#89. Drama aids self-discovery like nothing else. In removing it from our schools, we remove the inestimable benefits of it from our society. No amount of studying oxbow lakes was ever going to help me emotionally through the death of my father.

Rory Kinnear

#90. Nothing is true in self-discovery unless it is true in your own experience. This is the only protection against the robot levels of the mind.

Barry Long

#91. I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear - it was not a fear of not being accepted - was a very violent fear of failure.

Emanuel Steward

#92. A soulmate is the one person whose love is powerful enough to motivate you to meet your soul, to do the emotional work of self-discovery, of awakening.

Kenny Loggins

#93. Life is a deep and contemplative story stuck on repeat. love, loss, self-destruction, self-discovery

Pete Wentz

#94. Sometimes when we awaken from the bad dream of disowning ourselves, we think that the sojourn to self-discovery is a new one. But it is an ancient quest.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#95. I try to teach people to continually search and question the meaning of everything they are taught and everything they believe in. My job is not so much to impart a philosophy but to train people in the methods of self-discovery.

Frederick Lenz

#96. I don't dictate particular styles of dress. I do teach classes in self discovery.

Frederick Lenz

#97. We feel safe on familiar ground, the tried and tested, the accepted, the so-called 'normal', but life is meant to be experienced and explored, to be a journey of self-discovery and adventure.

Carole Carlton

#98. Out on the roads there is fitness and self-discovery and the persons we were destined to be.

George A. Sheehan

#99. I bumped into freakish backpackers, made random friends and heard some unusual stories in the time that I spent there. But more than anything, I realized that if ever there was a place tailor made for self-discovery, it would have to be Rishikesh.

Sachin Garg

#100. What you need to learn are basic types of concentration, bringing more energy into your life, plugging up the holes where you lose energy, the basics of self-discovery.

Frederick Lenz