Quotes about Self-discovery
Some people go to priests; others to poetry...I to my own heart, I to seek among phrases and fragments something unbroken.
- Virginia Woolf
To tell the truth about oneself, to discover oneself near at hand, is not easy.
- Virginia Woolf
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
I have lived a thousand lives already. Every day I unbury--I dig up. I find relics of myself in the sand that women made thousands of years ago...
- Virginia Woolf
He knew more of my intended career than I knew myself. I should be well enough educated for my destiny if I could "hold my own" with average young man in prosperous circumstances.
- Charles Dickens
Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. To
- Charles Dickens
We must be our own, before we can be another's.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you understand why you were born, you can handle whatever comes your way. You stop running from your past, from your pain, and from your mistakes.
- Gregory Dickow
When persons encounter God's self-disclosure, they not only know who God is but also who they are.
- James H. Cone
I date, but the person I date most is myself, unfortunately.
- Gabrielle Union
A flower must bloom inside first before revealing its beauty to the world.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.
- Thomas Jefferson