Self Discovery Quotes

• There are people who live their whole lives on the default settings, never realizing you can customize.

  Robert Brault

  People, Realizing, Default

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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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• 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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• 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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• I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.

  Dean Koontz

  Inspirational, Believe, Skills

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• Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

  Rollo May

  Freedom, Men, Hands

  Rollo May (2009). “Man's Search for Himself”, p.119, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.

  Rumi

  Motivation, Ocean, Heart

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• No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery - the source of truth.

  Barry Long

  Motivational, Education, Men

  "Knowing Yourself: The True in the False". Book by Barry Long, 1996.

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• No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Learning, Literature, Knows

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• Breaking the cycle takes time. Be Patient and Gentle with yourself. Set long term goals. And be persistent! Remember to Stretch, Laugh and be Unshakable!

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Long, Goal, Laughing

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• And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Journey

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• Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason, not that you have no reason for living.

  Tom O'Connor

  Mean, Might, Reason

  Tom O'Connor, Ahmed González-Núñez (1987). “Living With AIDS: Reaching Out”, Corwin Pub

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• I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.

  Emily Carr

  Art, Thinking, Growth

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• You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!

  Gertrude Stein

  Limits, Extraordinary

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Everybody's Autobiography”, p.42, Vintage

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• The secret of concentration is the secret of self-discovery. You reach inside yourself to discover your personal resources, and what it takes to match them to the challenge.

  Arnold Palmer

  Motivational, Sports, Discovery

  FaceBook post by Arnold Palmer from Apr 09, 2017

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• Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

  James Allen

  Love, Men, Keys

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• I've learned... . That being kind is more important than being right.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Life, Important, Be Kind

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• Look into the depths of your own soul and learn first to know yourself, then you will understand why this illness was bound to come upon you and perhaps you will thenceforth avoid falling ill.

  Sigmund Freud

  Fall, Soul, Depth

  Sigmund Freud (1963). “Character and culture”

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

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Pain, Moving, Heart

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• There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Acceptance, Self, Jewels

  Benjamin Franklin (1962). “Representative selections: with introduction, bibliography, and notes”

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• To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Sad, Broken Heart, Lonely

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.211

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• No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.

  Thomas Mann

  Men, Discovery, Political

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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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• 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

  Self Esteem, Men, Discovery

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• Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

  A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

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