Quotes about Self-discovery

Where there is a way or a path, it's someone else's way.

When you don't have a job (requiring reading) and you are doing your own reading you've got deep psychological questions. As deep as those of a little boy.

Our life evokes our character. You find out more about yourself as you go on. That's why it's good to be able to put yourself in situations that will evoke your higher nature rather than your lower.

You really can't follow a guru. You can't ask somebody to give The Reason, but you can find one for yourself; you decide what the meaning of your life is to be. People talk about the meaning of life; there is no meaning of life--there are lots of meanings of different lives, and you must decide what you want your own to be.

The more he looked inside the more Piglet wasn't there.

And I'd say to myself as I looked so lazily down at the sea: "There's nobody else in the world, and the world was made for me.

Sometimes you have to find the passion. It comes from the inside... Everyone has to find it for themselves.

I definitely had to pave my own path, which wasn't always the easiest thing to do.

I made this film 'The Beach,' which didn't take place in a city, and it didn't really suit me.

Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.

Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.