The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves.
Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already possess. Vocation does not come from a voice �out there� calling me to be something I am not. It comes from a voice �in here� calling me to be the person I was born to be, to fulfill the original selfhood given me at birth by God.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.
Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.
Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
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.
The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.
For most men, life is a search for the proper Manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.
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