Discovering Self Quotes - Page 2

• Fear is a question What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Fear, Self, House

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• There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people will not feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspiring, Confidence, Children

  Marianne Williamson (2012). “A Course in Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever”, p.230, Hay House, Inc

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

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Men

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• Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Wise, Dream

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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• Tell me who your enemy is, and I will tell you who you are.

  Carl Schmitt

  Romantic, Famous Love, Best Love

  Carl Schmitt (2007). “Theory of the Partisan: Intermediate Commentary on the Concept of the Political”, p.85, Telos Press Publishing

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• Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Running, Discovery, Self

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• Your playing small doesn't serve the world.

  Marianne Williamson

  Confidence, Fear, Insecure

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• Like an old gold-panning prospector, you must resign yourself to digging up a lot of sand from which you will later patiently wash out a few minute particles of gold ore.

  Dorothy Bryant

  Life, Finding Yourself, Gold

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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 Dostoevsky

  Men, Numbers, Finding Yourself

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• It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.

  Lucille Ball

  Happiness, Happy, Spring

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• Nail me to my car and I'll tell you who you are

  Chris Burden

  Romantic, Famous Love, Best Love

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• Tell me with whom you associate, and I will tell you who you are.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Romantic, Famous Love, Best Love

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1989). “Conversations of German Refugees ; Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, Or, The Renunciants”, p.296, Princeton University Press

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• Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

  Ann Landers

  Dog, Witty, Cat

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• I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Discovery, Finding Yourself, Fleeing

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Men, Personal Growth

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• Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through.

  Anais Nin

  Passion, Different Experiences, Becoming

  "The Mirror and the Garden : Realism and Reality in the Writings of Anais Nin" byEvelyn J. Hinz, (p. 40), 1971.

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• I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Death

  Walden ch. 2 (1854)

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• Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

  Matthew Arnold

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Sadness

  'Self-Dependence' (1852) l. 31

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• Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wisdom, Travel, Character

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• The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

  Anna Quindlen

  Confidence, Letting Go, Being Yourself

  Anna Quindlen (2009). “Being Perfect”, p.15, Random House

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  The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

  Marcel Proust

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

  James Anthony Froude

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The nemesis of faith”, p.4

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• The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Encouragement, Freedom, Business

  "The Power of Purpose: Find Meaning, Live Longer, Better". Book by Richard Leider, p. 35., 2010.

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• Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.

  Hugh Prather

  Change, Life Changing, Live Life

  Hugh Prather (2009). “Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person”, p.41, Bantam

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• Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Spiritual, Knowledge, Acceptance

  "In Search of the Miraculous: Fragments of an Unknown Teaching". Book by Pyotr Ouspensky, 1949.

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