Quotes about Self-realization
you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
- John Maxwell
Everything I desire is within me.
- Deepak Chopra
I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.
- Oswald Chambers
A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.
- Madeleine L'Engle
Man must reconcile himself to his natural greatness.... he must not forget that he is a person.
- Pope John Paul II
At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.
- Gloria Steinem
The best thing about self-defense is knowing there is a self
- Gloria Steinem
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
- Gloria Steinem
If thou canst not make thine own self what thou desireth, how shalt thou be able to fashion another to thine own liking. We are ready to see others made perfect, and yet we do not amend our own shortcomings.
- Thomas a Kempis
When I rummage in my own mind I find no noble sentiments about being companions and equals and influencing the world to higher ends. I find myself saying briefly and prosaically that it is much more important to be oneself than anything else.
- Virginia Woolf
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
- Thomas Jefferson
In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.
- Thomas Merton