Quotes About Self Exploration

#1. I think self-exploration is one of the journeys in life that we are blessed to be able to have.

Anne Heche

#2. yoga is not a practice of attaining idealized physical postures, but a process of self-exploration, self-acceptance, and self-transformation. Reinforce

Mark Stephens

#3. . . the humanities encourage the development of our own humanity. They are our instruments of self-exploration.

Michael Dirda

#4. My 20s was a time for self-exploration and, okay, a little self-indulgence.

Chris Evans

#5. All writing is an act of self-exploration. Even a grocery list says something about you; how much more does a novel say?

Steven Saylor

#6. Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be.

Iris Apfel

#7. Writing for publication is an odd hybrid of intimate self-exploration and public exhibitionsim.

Talia Vance

#8. Since I've known you, you've been spinning and spinning and spinning into all these various personas, and none of this self-exploration and experimentation has given you a sense of peace. I've known you for six years, intimately for four, and I still have no idea who I'm in love with.

Megan McCafferty

#9. I was at the part of self-exploration where you have to be surrounded with miscellanea in all of its diversity in order to figure things out.

Addie Zierman

#10. Sex-ed courses look at girl's internal parts: for boys it's about ejaculation, erection and wet dreams; for girls, it's periods and unwanted pregnancy. We never talk to girls about sexual self-exploration or self-knowledge.

Peggy Orenstein

#11. Writing about oneself is an egotistical adventure unless the act of self-exploration revolves around the distinct goal of heightening a person's cache of knowledge, ideas, and level of self-awareness.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#12. This city is yawning before me, but I'm not tired.

Taylor Rhodes

#13. You can never know who you really are or what you can do until you discover yourself

Sunday Adelaja

#14. To forgive, we may need to open our minds to a fuller exploration of the context in which the events occurred, and feel compassion for the circumstances and everyone involved, starting with ourselves.

Sharon Salzberg

#15. Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#16. He tilted my chin up and I swear those lips are magic. Witchcraft. Sorcery. Whatever it is in those lips, it's addictive. Unassailable. I had to have more. More of this feeling of being wanted.

Taylor Rhodes

#17. We have forgotten that children are designed by nature to learn through self-directed play and exploration, and so, more and more, we deprive them of freedom to learn, subjecting them instead to the tedious and painfully slow learning methods devised by those who run the schools.

Peter Gray

#18. There was the emptiness of space I was afraid to fall into, but the only real fear I'd ever actually had was to dive into the emptiness inside of myself.

Orson De Witt

#19. We are paint streaked runners,
deafened by the cries of all the sad people.
It's a powerful sound that practically yanks the tears right out of you.
Sometimes, you just can't help but feel like a
very small
clam in
a very
big ocean.

Taylor Rhodes

#20. I never understood that everyone feels lost temporarily when they want to change their world and the state of their life

Priya Kumar

#21. We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.

T. S. Eliot

#22. Leaving from your body might sometimes be an unpleasant experience for you, if that is what you have built your identity around

Priya Kumar

#23. We are chained by our own control. Life is nothing more than finding the key that unlocks every part of our soul.

Shannon L. Alder

#24. But what am I going to see?
I don't know. In a certain sense, it depends on you.

Stanislaw Lem

#25. It gave a tremendous level of self-confidence, that through exploration and learning one could understand seemingly very complex things in one's environment.

Steve Jobs

#26. The poor and people of color are yoked to the abject; white people use its exploration as a path toward self-liberation. It's a valid critique - and one that Broad City has increasingly interrogated, suggesting, especially in later seasons, the extent of Abbi and Ilana's privilege.

Anne Helen Petersen

#27. We can't be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don't have something better.

C. JoyBell C.

#28. 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

#29. Is it bad to like the way the scars look on my skin? Oh, the way they feel under my hands. My body's protecting itself, saying, "No, this barrier of scar tissue is to keep you out.

Taylor Rhodes

#30. Wrap him up in floral wallpaper, wishing the envelopes I seal were his lips, leaving hickeys like stamps to show where he's been.

Taylor Rhodes

#31. I would like my books to stand as a tool to unbind children from expectations of poetry because it should free the child to self-expression and exploration.

Masiela Lusha

#32. Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, and without finding what lies behind doorways that he himself has sealed.

Stanislaw Lem

#33. When you've been everywhere, tried it all and done it all, what's left is the exploration of self, intellectually and sexually, through curiosity and erotica.

Chloe Thurlow

#34. All feel justified. To find truth, a man must consider the possibility that he is wrong.

Lance Conrad

#35. My work is an exploration of the self. I've always been concerned with how I'm living and how that reflects in the painting.

Jose Parla

#36. I don't see myself as a hero because what I'm doing is self-interested: I don't want to live in a world where there's no privacy and therefore no room for intellectual exploration and creativity.

Edward Snowden

#37. Writing is all at once an exploration of what is, and what is not. Of the known, and the unknown. A journey into the depths of self, and all of humankind.

Madelaine Standing

#38. Cooperation over competition. If the world simply sees this statement, together we can begin our exploration of it. Simply seeing it is enough to create change.

Rene Gaudette

#39. The depth of a man is a limit only he can know, should he have the courage to explore into the dark.

Kyle Schmalenberg

#40. The slavery of identity comes from our refusal to face ourselves. So we must begin the exploration to self-awareness. Where do we start?

Ruben Papian

#41. Now, what's stirring in this murky sea of complexity and foolishness is an almost suffocating need to breathe fresh history.

Laurie Perez

#42. He had begun the diary less as a record of his life (for whom and why? What life?) than as a regular and self-indulgent exploration, a means of makings sense of the past years, part catharsis, part comforting affirmation.

P.D. James

#43. There are so many ways in which we learn about life and the self. Each day opens paths to this exploration. For many of us, books play a major role in that adventure

Ashley Bryan

#44. We screamed this primeval scream built on a base of freedom, raised from beauty of a dying breed, and threw our heads back to laugh or cry, I'm not entirely sure which. But the scream shook the golden sunset, bringing it to its knees.

Taylor Rhodes

#45. We are made of stellar ash. Our origin and evolution have been tied to distant cosmic events. The exploration of the cosmos is a voyage of self-discovery.

Carl Sagan