Quotes about Self-discovery

There have been many people whom I have admired, emulated and even modeled parts of my life after. I study how they do things, and then I go through a period of 'trying on' those same thinking patterns and behaviors. After awhile, what is not essentially me falls away while the useful parts remain.

We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.

Now, with God's help, I shall become myself.

The tedium vitae so constant in antiquity was due to the fact that the outstanding individual was what others could not be ; the inspiration of modern times will be that any man who finds himself, religiously speaking, has only achieved what every one can achieve .

joy and refreshment in contemplating the great men who have found that precious stone for which they sell all, even their lives... proceeding on their chosen course without vacillating...absorbed in themselves and in working towards their higher goal.

Oh, to what degree human beings would become—human and lovable beings—if they would become single individuals before God!

No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength

...and that visibility which makes us most vulnerable is that which also is the source of our greatest strength.

Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.

Most people search high and wide for the key to success. If they only knew, the key to their dreams lies within.

It is better to be lonely than allow people who are not going anywhere keep you from your destiny.

I wasn't good company, that was true, and people avoided me, but that was all right. I was too busy dreaming.