Self Discovers Quotes

#1. There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

Douglas Adams

#2. Girl discovers reading, then discovers life.

Nancy Pearl

#3. It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry.

Gaston Bachelard

#4. The greatest poverty one can have is to be poor in one's heart and for falling in love, he is truly happy. He discovers purpose.

Russell Brand

#5. The perfect fight is one that is over before the loser really understands what is going on. The perfect defense is a counterattack that succeeds before the assailant discovers that he has bitten off more than he can chew.

Jeff Cooper

#6. Interest and proficiency in almost any one activity-swimming, boating, fishing, skiing, skating-breed interest in many more. Once someone discovers the delight of mastering one skill, however slightly, he is likely to try out not just one more, but a whole ensemble.

Margaret Mead

#7. One who practices pure religion soon discovers it is more rewarding to lift a man up than to hold him down.

Marvin J. Ashton

#8. One discovers that destiny can be diverted, that one does not have to remain in bondage to the first wax imprint made on childhood sensibilities. Once the deforming mirror has been smashed, there is a possibility of wholeness. There is a possibility of joy.

Anais Nin

#9. The man who discovers new knowledge is the permanent benefactor of humanity.

Ayn Rand

#10. It's about a young man who has climbed to fame and he discovers that his writing and the relationship with his wife are really more important for him than anything else.

Ismail Merchant

#11. Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great.

Edgar Quinet

#12. Time discovers truth.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#13. Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.

Annie Dillard

#14. If one really does try to find out why it is that people don't leave each other, one discovers a mystery. It is because they can't; they are bound. And nobody on earth knows what are the bonds that bind them except those two.

Katherine Mansfield

#15. Reason adapts impulses and beliefs into the real world; rationalization, on the other hand, adapts the concept of reality to the impulses and beliefs of the individual. Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.

Gordon Allport

#16. O powerful goodness! Bountiful Father! Merciful Guide! Increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolution to perform what that wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to thy other children as the only return in my power for thy continual favours to me.

Benjamin Franklin

#17. The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.

Wally Lamb

#18. Here was one of the white man's most characteristic behavior patterns - where black men are concerned. He loves himself so much that he is startled if he discovers that his victims don't share his vainglorious self-opinion.

Malcolm X

#19. Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-conciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make.

Bruce Lee

#20. Thus, in achieving ones goals, one improves, develops and discovers his potentials

Sunday Adelaja

#21. The shaman is a self-realized person. She discovers the ways of Spirit through her inner awakening.

Alberto Villoldo

#22. The hero, whether god or goddess, man or woman, the figure in a myth or the dreamer of a dream discovers and assimilates his opposite (his own unsuspected self) either by swallowing it or by being swallowed.

Joseph Campbell

#23. Self is.
Self is body and bodily
perception. Self is thought, memory,
belief. Self creates. Self destroys.
Self learns, discovers, becomes.
Self shapes. Self adapts. Self
invents its own reasons for being.
To shape God, shape Self.

Octavia E. Butler

#24. Life is a book. We write in everyday existence.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#25. 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

#26. The self thus becomes aware of itself, at least in its practical action, and discovers itself as a cause among other causes and as an object subject to the same laws as other objects.

Jean Piaget

#27. Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers that his pen accomplishes a lot more than his soul.

Joseph Brodsky

#28. The main purpose of a church is to bring relevance to people and make sure everyone discovers their calling

Sunday Adelaja

#29. Abhijit Naskar is a self-trained scientist and thinker who discovers the paradigm shifting phenomena of the human mind.

Michael A. Persinger

#30. It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however little they acknowledge it, one later discovers that they were among the most powerful promoters of decadence.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#31. In this world of rights, the one who dares to be wrong, discovers the truth.

Saurabh Sharma

#32. The man of reflection discovers Truth; but the one who enjoys it and makes
use of its heavenly gifts is the man of action.

Benito Perez Galdos

#33. Once humanity discovers what's behind the mirror of all the ruling class of governments and religions there will be a new beginning of justice called Enlightenment.

Charleston Parker

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

Yann Martel

#35. The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.

Jean De La Bruyere

#36. The creative personality never remains fixed on the first world it discovers. It never resigns itself to anything.

Anais Nin

#37. When man manages his intellect and steadies his mind,
He discovers the all-pervading Self.

Gian Kumar

#38. An able reader often discovers in other people's writings perfections beyond those that the author put in or perceived, and lends them richer meanings and aspects.

Michel De Montaigne

#39. Our globe discovers its bidden virtues, not only in heroes and arch-angels, but in gossips and nurses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#40. When a caterpillar bursts from its cocoon and discovers it has wings, it does not sit idly, hoping to one day turn back. It flies.

Kelseyleigh Reber

#41. Fasting and natural diet, though essentially unknown as a therapy, should be the first treatment when someone discovers that he or she has a medical problem.

Joel Fuhrman

#42. The man who discovers a new scientific truth has previously had to smash to atoms almost everything he had learnt, and arrives at the new truth with hands blood stained from the slaughter of a thousand platitudes.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#43. The artist, surgeon, through clay form, can only look for cure with great obstinacy until he discovers, repeatedly, that love is god's only gift that enables man to transcend his tragedy and regain his wholeness and well-being beyond the claws of evil, rampaging as evil may be.

Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

#44. Love is the expression of the one who loves, not of the one who is loved. Those who think they can love only the people they prefer do not love at all. Love discovers truths about individuals that others cannot see

Soren Kierkegaard

#45. A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.

Norman Mailer

#46. But man does not create ... he discovers.

Antonio Gaudi

#47. We become contemplatives when God discovers Himself in us.

Thomas Merton

#48. Mathematics compares the most diverse phenomena and discovers the secret analogies that unite them.

Joseph Fourier

#49. Faith pulls the black mask from the face of trouble, and discovers the angel beneath.

Charles Spurgeon

#50. If a black doctor discovers a cure for cancer, ain't no hospital going to lock him out.

Jesse Jackson

#51. The Saab seethed off into the night. Arthur watched it go, as stunned as a man might be who, having believed himself to be totally blind for five years, suddenly discovers that he had merely been wearing too large a hat.

Douglas Adams

#52. Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.

Norman Douglas

#53. pleased to observe, that you submit to reason and necessity without indulging useless complaint. I applaud this conduct exceedingly, the more, perhaps, since it discovers a strength of mind seldom observable in your sex.

Eliza Parsons

#54. A man of sense soon discovers, because he carefully observes, where and how long he is welcome; and takes care to leave the company at least as soon as he is wished out of it. Fools never perceive whether they are ill timed or ill placed.

Lord Chesterfield

#55. Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.

Sri Aurobindo

#56. Eternity: The interval between the time when a woman discovers that a man is in love with her and the time when he finds it out himself and tells her about it.

Helen Rowland

#57. A newly elected representative quickly discovers that his job in government-aside from making new laws-is to act as a broker, middleman, special pleader and finagler.

William Greider

#58. You can't really discover the most interesting conflicts and problems in a subject until you've tried to write about them. At that point, one discovers discontinuities in the data, perhaps, or in one's own thinking; then the act of writing forces you to work harder to resolve these contradictions.

Anthony F. C. Wallace

#59. A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

James Allen

#60. Man is made for error; it enters his mind naturally, and he discovers a few truths only with the greatest effort.

Frederick The Great

#61. Motherhood implies from the beginning a special openness to the new person: and this is precisely the woman's 'part'. In this openness, in conceiving and giving birth to a child, the woman 'discovers herself through a sincere gift of self'.

Pope John Paul II

#62. It is in playing and only in playing that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and to use the whole personality, and it is only in being creative that the individual discovers the self.

D.W. Winnicott

#63. Anyone who dreams of an uncommon life eventually discovers there is no choice but to seek an uncommon approach to living it.

Gary Keller

#64. Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of 'not knowing.

Mark Z. Danielewski