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Self Discovery Quotes

"You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible"
Deepak Chopra
"Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is"
Erich Fromm
"The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers"
Erich Fromm
"The more man alienates himself from the world around him, the more he alienates himself also from his own inner world"
Erich Fromm
"The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy"
Gustave Flaubert
"The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"I am not sure that I exist actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited"
Jorge Luis Borges
"Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are"
Jose Saramago
"Through others we become ourselves"
Lev Vygotsky
"The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning"
Michel Foucault
"Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Happiness comes from living as you need to, as you want to. As your inner voice tells you to. Happiness comes from being who you actually are instead of who you think you are supposed to be"
Shonda Rhimes
"Boundaries don't keep other people out. They fence you in. Life is messy. That's how we're made. So, you can waste your life drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them"
Shonda Rhimes
"To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself."
Søren Kierkegaard
"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go"
T. S. Eliot
"We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time"
T. S. Eliot
"The things that we love tell us what we are."
Thomas Aquinas
"Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another"
Toni Morrison
"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom"
William Blake
"You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore."
William Faulkner