Self Discovery Quotes - Page 8

If you don’t find yourself and purpose, the world will be worse for it

We must discover our own path to joy and a sense of leading a purposeful existence. I spent the first part of life attempting to discern what a man ought to be, and spent the latter years attempting to reconcile why I was not the man whom I always aspired to be. A person endures a tragic consumption of the spirit when they discover that they are not what they desired to become.

I suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses me. Only at night and all alone, withdrawn, forgotten and lost, with no connection to anything real or useful — only then do I find myself and feel comforted.

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

Don't you dare feel guilty for letting those who dim your light, go. Not everyone you meet deserves to be a character in your story.

She wasn't tracking down her father to learn more about him. She was tracking him down to learn more about herself.

Renewal of mind begins with reading and mediation on the Scriptures.

Self-healing requires tremendous action, a willingness to go beyond the normative to discover something transcending.

The Joseph in you must rise to the challenges of life and turn them into gold

Character is the real you-“the you in you that makes you the you, you are”. “the hidden man of the heart” (1Peter 3:4).

Trust and faith have left you.” “He will help guide you back to them.” “Blessings to you on your journey.

Judgment should never enter into the hearts and minds of others while observing another in a pain that cannot be understood.

Self-questioning is the road to personal liberation and spiritual enlightenment. Self-questioning spurs the mind to consider new opportunities to arrive at truth.

A man who reads will find himself.

Never again!" commanded his will. "Again! Tomorrow!" begged his heart.

Everyone can find the field in which he is gifted, his favorite activity and devote his time to it, instead of working for a good income, but no satisfaction

She was a gypsy, as soon as you unravelled the many layers to her wild spirit she was on her next quest to discover her magic. She was relentless like that, the woman didn't need no body but an open road, a pen and a couple of sunsets.

I have rubbed, knocked and brushed up against a thousand windows, trying to get an image.

I am an artist. Any artist knows that their creations, their pieces must express an array of human emotion and experience. From the juvenile and innocent, to the erotic and the dangerous, and everything in between. Because Life is all of these things and more. It is the artist's divine purpose to reflect what Experience has shown them and others. What truly sets us apart from each other is whether or not we truly know ourselves enough to reflect objectively; but, through our own unique 'voice'.

May you follow the path of light.

It was the most amazing feeling in the world. to know that something right happened, and to know that it had happened not through luck or command but simply because it was right.

Divine force lies within you. You must awake the power.

Courage doesn’t happen when you have all the answers. It happens when you are ready to face the questions you have been avoiding your whole life.

Self-knowledge is the greatest education.

I mean, I really liked him to the point where being around him was sort of wonderful and painful all at the same time, you know?

There's no alternative to being yourself. Accept it, honour it, value it - and get on with it.

I suppose the shock of recognition is one of the nastiest shocks of all.

I could feel his hand on my waist, his arms around me, feel the rise and fall of his chest next to mine as I held my breath, and wished the sun would drop out of the sky.

We stay busy so we don't have to admit we don't have all the answers. After long enough with our constant distractions, we end our search for them. And God. Soon enough, we'll all come to realize we can't be God. We'll settle for telling ourselves we can. Or we'll just make one up.

There is no pre-mapped intellectual topology path leading to truth. Truth is a process of conducting a searching investigatory dialogue with oneself in an attempt to examine and discern the contents of a person’s own mind. Every person must ask himself or herself what is essential in life.

You must find your sacred path and travel on

The world's a stage and I'm on it. Better make a good impression out there!

Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, and without finding what lies behind doorways that he himself has sealed.

There's something about kindred spirits, you meet them and for a moment this world no matter ugly, makes sense. They bring a sense of freedom and clarity to one conversation; just enough to remind you of who you are.

Until we begin to discover and create value, purposefully and systemically, we are not humans but only biomass

It was duck apocalypse!

The need to prove who you are will vanish once you know who you are.

It is not the path that you have trouble finding. You knew your path since your first daydream. It's courage you're searching for - courage to trust yourself and stop searching for a travel partner who knows better than you where to go. And courage is only built in action.

Explore in the inside of you and discover your true potential. After your discovery, ameliorate on it and it will yield to an endless success.

single people without children have a "childish sensitivity and are unwilling or unable to compromise or fit in

But sometimes you have to make a decision with your heart instead of your head, and that’s what I did. I know I’ve made the right decision even if it takes my brain a little while to catch up to my heart.

The journey to self discovery forges many paths, the footprints left behind are the memories of what was and the belief of what is.~bns

Each of us is the enactor of our personal saga; we create the phantom of the self. We are the principal character in our personal story, as well as witnesses and reactors to the storylines of other persons whom we adore. We are each the composers of our evolving personal story; we are the protagonist of our personal life story.

To be calm and compassionate you need courage and conviction.

For sometime now I have believed that it is our own force, all our own force that is still too great for us. It is true that we do not know it; but is it not just that which is most our own of which we know the least?

You have to discover the essence of your life

Despite the personalization of life’s events, all people largely experience the same general transformative stages of life and eventually we all encounter a row of similar tragedies. We do not experience identical lives or exemplify replicable personalities. Every person is a receptacle whom is capable of experiencing the full gamut of the entire human condition. Our lives act as a period of apprenticeship, which we devote laboring to discover the truths that we can live by.

Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.

He went to India to "find himself" last year, but evidently he wasn't there, and he came back empty-handed.

When a cycle in your life repeats, you should troubleshot where the glitch is. Find the glitch and you will find your purposed journey.

The greatest self is the grace to live for your dreams.

To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self.... And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one's self.

Your destination should determine who you choose as friend

You can't reinvent yourself using spare parts..."--Barry Randall from My Father's Ashes

Don’t procrastinate, start building yourself now!

Devote yourself to reading, learning and writing.

The human mind – a product of the brain – controls our ability to adapt to a hostile or friendly environment. Human beings are composed of fields of energy, some of which forces are positive, and other force fields are negative. We can use constructive reason to penetrate only a limited segment of the human mind, which projects discernible logical thought process. A person’s mind also houses dark areas of reality, the mysterious apparatus that eludes the grasp of human reason. We can never express the truth of a person with a precise lucid principle. A person must travel beyond realism in order to explore every facet of his or her being and live his or her most cherished dreams.

You don't just read a book to find adventure. You read a book to find yourself.

Because that's the thing about mean people: They make you think that the world will never work, that there are divides that you will fall into if you approach. It takes a whole lot of good people to fill in the breach created by a single mean one.

It was so quiet, I could hear my own breathing, loud in my ears. Outside, the ocean was crashing, waves hitting sand, then pulling back to sea. I thought of everything being washed away, again and again. We make such messes in this life, both accidentally and on purpose. But wiping the surface clean doesn't really make anything any neater. It just masks what is below. It's only when you really dig down deep, go underground, that you can see who you really are.