Quotes about Self-discovery
Men tend to gain wholeness by acquiring the qualities that are wrongly called feminine.
- Gloria Steinem
When a man understands who he is, who God is, who the devil is... then he can pick himself up out of the gutter; he can clean himself up and stand up like a man should before his God.
- Malcolm X
The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
But perhaps a man is not required to bury himself.
- Henry David Thoreau
The reason why I spend so much money for my journals is to press me to find something valuable to put in them.
- Jim Rohn
Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.
- Khalil Gibran
Re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem.
- Walt Whitman
Trials teach us what we are.
- Charles Spurgeon
There is a need for aloneness... for an actor.
- Marilyn Monroe
In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself.
- Deepak Chopra
Our life evokes our character. You find out more about yourself as you go on. That's why it's good to put yourself in situations that will evoke your higher nature rather than your lower.
- Joseph Campbell
Freedom is not the absence of limitations and constraints but it is finding the right ones, those that fit our nature and liberate us.
- Timothy Keller