Quotes about Self-discovery

Some people say religion is finding yourself, and some people say it's losing yourself in a crowd.

Emelina and I took each other in. All morning I'd felt the strange disjuncture that comes from reconnecting with your past. There's such a gulf between yourself and who you were then, but people speak to that other person and it answers; it's like having a stranger as a house guest in your skin.

We hear a lot today about identity theft. The greatest identity theft is not when someone takes your wallet or steals your credit card. The greater theft happens when we forget who we really are, when we begin to believe that our worth and identity come from how well we stack up compared to others, instead of recognizing that each of us has immeasurable worth and potential, independent of any comparison.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Today we come across an individual who behaves like an automaton, who does not know or understand himself, and the only person that he knows is the person that he is supposed to be, whose meaningless chatter has replaced communicative speech, whose

Our meaning comes from within. Again, in the words of Frankl, "Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

He can only answer to life by answering for his own life.

Leadership is communicating others' worth and potential so clearly that they are inspired to see it in themselves.

Take responsibility for finding your one true love.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.

It occurred to me then that for the first time in as long as I could remember, I had absolutely no desire to log back into the OASIS.