Self Discovery Quotes - Page 11

• There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

  Carol Shields

  Chapters

  Carol Shields (2008). “The Stone Diaries: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.82, Penguin

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• Our self discoveries make us each a microcosm of the larger pattern of history. The inertia of introspection leads toward recollection, for only through memory is the past recaptured and understood. In the fact of experiencing and making the present, we are all actors.

  Terence McKenna

  Memories, Past, Discovery

  Terence McKenna (1998). “True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival”, M J F Books

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• Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone.

  Octavio Paz

  Discovery, Self, Realization

  Octavio Paz (1985). “The Labyrinth of Solitude: And the Other Mexico ; Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude ; Mexico and the United States ; The Philanthropic Ogre”, p.9, Grove Press

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• When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope that, in the course of a few years, we shall have condensed into our encyclopaedia the net value of all the theories at which the world has yet arrived. But year after year our tables get no completeness, and at last we discover that our curve is a parabola, whose arcs will never meet.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Pain, Book

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1937). “Essays, First and Second Series”, p.109, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.

  Oscar Wilde

  Self Esteem, World, Antiques

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.305, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• It is not merely enough to love literature if one wishes to spend one's life as a writer. It is a dangerous undertaking on the most primitive level. For, it seems to me, the act of writing with serious intent involves enormous personal risk. It entails the ongoing courage for self-discovery. It means one will walk forever on the tightrope, with each new step presenting the possiblity of learning a truth about oneself that is too terrible to bear.

  Harlan Ellison

  Writing, Mean, Discovery

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• We are made of stellar ash. Our origin and evolution have been tied to distant cosmic events. The exploration of the cosmos is a voyage of self-discovery.

  Carl Sagan

  Discovery, Self, Events

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.348, Ballantine Books

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• A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Hope, Coaching, Mentor

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• An artist is an explorer. He has to begin by self-discovery and by observation of his own procedure. After that he must not feel under any constraint.

  Henri Matisse

  Artist, Discovery, Self

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• Learn the craft of knowing how to open your heart and to turn on your creativity. There's a light inside of you.

  Judith Jamison

  Inspirational, Women, Heart

  Judith Jamison (1993). “Dancing Spirit: An Autobiography”, Doubleday Books

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• I embrace emerging experience, I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly.

  William Stafford

  Butterfly, Discovery, Experience

  William Stafford, Paul Merchant, Vincent Wixon (1998). “Crossing unmarked snow: further views on the writer's vocation”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• That wonderful and terribly frightening journey of self-discovery. That process of growth, of being an independent person, of learning who you are and what you want from life, is the real secret of life, happiness and beauty.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Real, Independent, Journey

  Diane Von Furstenberg, Evelyn Portrait (1976). “Diane Von Furstenberg's Book of Beauty: How to Become a More Attractive, Confident, and Sensual Woman”, Simon & Schuster

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• Students of the psychedelic realm know that one's expectations are a powerful determinant of the direction, content, and outcome of the experience. So, we should say at the outset that the experiences recounted here were preceded by careful preparation, where the trip was presented as a learning experience and a process of self-discovery. They all took place in safe, supportive environments. They generally did not fit the stereotypical model of teenagers dropping acid at a rock concert, looking for awesome visuals and good vibes.

  Rick Doblin

  Powerful, Teenager, Dropping Acid

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• New Year's Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. Answers to be discovered and then lived in this transformative year of delight and self-discovery. Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Happy, New Year, Dream

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• The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.

  Myles Munroe

  Discovery, Self, Life Is

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• Something in me knows where I’m going, and - well, painting is a state of being. ... Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

  Jackson Pollock

  Artist, Discovery, Self

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• Art is not just ornamental, an enhancement of life. It is a path in itself, a way out of the predictable and conventional... a map to self discovery.

  Gabrielle Roth

  Art, Discovery, Self

  Gabrielle Roth, John Loudon (1998). “Maps to Ecstasy: A Healing Journey for the Untamed Spirit”, p.10, New World Library

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• Life is an endless process of self-discovery.

  John W. Gardner

  Discovery, Self, Life Is

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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

  Discovery, Self, Mind

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

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• ... How is it [, then] that the leaders of our society have seen fit to try to eliminate this one very important means of learning and self-discovery, this means which has been used, respected, and honored for thousands of years, in every human culture of which we have a record?

  Alexander Shulgin

  Mean, Discovery, Self

  Alexander Shulgin, Ann Shulgin (1995). “Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story”

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• Gail Sheehy tells us that "the delights of self-discovery are always available." All Fools' Day is the perfect day to engrave this wisdom in our hearts.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Heart, Discovery, Self

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• Emotional turmoil can be a powerful catalyst to reconnect us with our divine nature. It propels us into a journey of self discovery and urges us to learn how to love and accept our entire being.

  Debbie Ford

  Powerful, Emotional, Journey

  Debbie Ford (2009). “Spiritual Divorce: Divorce as a Catalyst for an Extraordinary Life”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• Sometimes when we awaken from the bad dream of disowning ourselves, we think that the sojourn to self-discovery is a new one. But it is an ancient quest.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Dream, Healing, Thinking

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (1999). “Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self”, G K Hall & Company

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• There is really no practical help that one can offer: it is a matter of self-discovery, of one's own conviction, or working with one's own work; your style is what seems natural to you. It is a long process of discovery, one that never ends. I am working at it, and will be as long as I live.

  Truman Capote

  Writing, Discovery, Self

  "Too Brief a Treat: The Letters of Truman Capote".

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• Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Book, Journey

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Commentaries on Living 1”, p.262, M-y books ltd

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