Quotes about Self-discovery
What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
One trend I see is the rejection of growth for self-discovery and the pursuit of authentic community. So we keep whittling our spiritual community to a smaller and smaller and more exclusive inner circle. The problem is if the diagnoses are wrong, so will be the cure.
— Erwin McManus
The first step to becoming what God made you to be is to stop worrying about what others want you to be.
— Rick Warren
Sometimes I need to be a stranger to myself. Only then my soul can show me not what I want, but what I need to see.
— Paulo Coelho
Your life is a mirror. Life gives us not what we want. Life gives us who we are.
— Robin Sharma
In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.
— St. Basil
The spiritual life is a reaching out to our innermost self, to our fellow human and to our God.
— Henri Nouwen
A home filled with nothing but yourself. It's heavy, that lightness. It's crushing, that emptiness.
— Margaret Atwood
Keeping a Diary all my life helped me to discover some basic elements essential to the vitality of writing.
— Anais Nin
It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
— Barbara Kingsolver
I think somehow we learn who we really are and then we live with that decision.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.
— Eleanor Roosevelt