Quotes about Self-discovery

Some of us have been told what we want our whole lives. We've been told we should want to go out for sports or not. We should want a college education or a graduate degree or a particular career. We should want to date this person and not the other.

But man as a person, the same man, gains mastery over egocentric self-confinement by disclosing a universe in himself...Personality is a universe, it is filled with universal content.

Men are always ready to nose around and find out about other's lives, but they feel lazy to know themselves and correct their own life.

How do you expect to arrive at the end of your own journey if you take the road to another man's city?

There is nothing worse than solitude. Solitude can help a man realize himself; but it destroys a woman

The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.

It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.

It may be true that he travels farthest who travels alone, but the goal thus reached is not worth reaching.

The deepest and most profitable lesson is this,the true knowlege and contempt of ourselves.

For she was a child, throwing bread to the ducks, between her parents who stood by the lake, holding her life in her arms which, as she neared them, grew larger and larger in her arms, until it became a whole life, a complete life, which she put down by them and said, This is what I have made of it! This! And what had she made of it? What, indeed?

For beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself.

To be myself (I note) I need the illumination of other people's eyes, and therefore cannot be entirely sure what is my self.