Self Discovery Quotes

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The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
- Muhammad Ali

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Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
- Henry David Thoreau

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A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
- George Moore

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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know o Will Txting Ex Make Him Not Want U Back ne’s self.
- Benjamin Franklin

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Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
- Dr. Alexis Carrel

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Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.
- Buddha

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The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke

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It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too.
- H.W. Shaw

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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde

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If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.
- James A. Michener

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One’s own self is well hidden from one’s own self; of all mines of treasure, one’s own is the last to be dug up.
- Friedrich Wilhelm

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The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.
- Julien Green

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I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can’t find anybody who can tell me what they want.
- Mark Twain

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Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can’t even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
- Barbara Kingsolver

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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
- George Eliot

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Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal.
- Russell Lynes

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You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.
- Jerry Gillies

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If you’re not a rebel by the age of twenty, you’ve got no heart, but if you haven’t turned establishment by thirty, you’ve got no brains.
- Buddy Ackerman

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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

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There are… things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of persons, and of oneself.
- André Gide

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Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.
- Erich Fromm

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You gain strength, experience and confidence by every experience where you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

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Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, he wants to reestablish them. Ignorance irritates him and knowledge cloys.
- Amiel

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We need to find the courage to say ‘NO’ to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.
- Barbara Angelis

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You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
- Alan Alda

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It’s a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself. Makes you wonder what else you can do that you’ve forgotten about.
- Alan Ball

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Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
- Barbara Kingsolver