Discovering Who You Are Quotes

• Finding happiness is like finding yourself. You don't find happiness, you make happiness. You choose happiness. Self-actualization is a process of discovering who you are, who you want to be and paving the way to happiness by doing what brings you the most meaning and contentment to your life over the long run.

  David Leonhardt

  Happiness, Running, Self

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• There's a lot about discovering who you are and how difficult that is. And it never stops.

  Libba Bray

  Difficult, Discovering, Who You Are

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• Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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  Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.1250, Faber & Faber

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• Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  Motivational, Stay Strong, Business

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• You don't find happiness, you make happiness.

  David Leonhardt

  Finding Happiness, Self Actualization, Discovering Yourself

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• Today you are you! That is truer than true!

  Dr. Seuss

  Happy Birthday, Funny Birthday, Monday

  "Happy Birthday to You!". Book by Dr. Seuss, 1959.

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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

  Life, Sassy, Discovery

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.59, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "Happy Birthday to You!". Book by Dr. Seuss, 1959.

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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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• The starting point of discovering who you are, your gifts, your talents, your dreams, is being comfortable with yourself. Spend time alone. Write in a journal. Take long walks in the woods.

  Robin Sharma

  Dream, Writing, Long Walks

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• I am much more settled in who I am. I think a lot of your 20s is trying to figure out who you are - you're on your own, you've got you first job, you've got your first apartment, you're living away from your parents, you're just discovering who you are. I have deep, long friendships now and real relationships and I am so excited about the rest of my 40s.

  Sutton Foster

  Jobs, Real, Thinking

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• When I try to get clever I fail, so I stick with the basic issues of human life on earth - sex, death, relationships, discovering who you are, being hurt and confused.

  Barbara Ess

  Hurt, Sex, Clever

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• Pop Salvation is a genius take on discovering who you are by becoming what you most admire. If I didn’t know better, I’d think Lance Reynald watched me grow up. Marvelously endearing and insightful.

  Josh Kilmer-Purcell

  Growing Up, Thinking, Insightful

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• Zen is the game of insight, the game of discovering who you are beneath the social masks.

  Reginald Horace Blyth

  Games, Mask, Social

  Reginald Horace Blyth (1976). “Games Zen Masters Play: Writings of R. H. Blyth”

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• As a teenager, you're still discovering who you are, what your life is about, and who you want to be as a person. It's very intense.

  Kaya Scodelario

  Teenager, Want, Life Is

  "Discovery: Kaya Scodelario" by Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 14, 2011.

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