Quotes about Self-discovery

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.

I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.

Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner's manual your creator gave you and destroying your design.

You get to know who you really are in a crisis.

Our life-purpose therefore comes from two sources at once—who we are created to be and who we are called to be. Not

In other words, we are never freer than when we become most ourselves, most human, most just, most excellent, and the like.

Be you because everyone else is taken!

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well worth remembering from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

I have never met the man I could despair of after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of God.

Sorrow removes a great deal of a person's shallowness, but it does not always make that person better. Suffering either gives me to myself or it destroys me. You cannot find or receive yourself through success, because you lose your head over pride. And you cannot receive yourself through the monotony of your daily life, because you give in to complaining. The only way to find yourself is in the fires of sorrow.