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Self Discovery Quotes

"When we seek the gaze of another, it isn’t always our partner we are turning to—it’s the other in ourselves."
Esther Perel
"To be mature means to take responsibility for defining meaning in our lives, creating fresh forms of meaning via work, relationships, and feeling the fullness of existence."
Alain de Botton
"Go to the limits of your longing. Let everything happen to you."
Rainer Maria Rilke
"I've never seen any life transformation that didn't begin with the person in question finally getting tired of their own bullshit"
Elizabeth Gilbert
"Sometimes you just gotta be drop-kicked out of the nest"
Robert Downey Jr.
"If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's"
Joseph Campbell
"The ultimate dragon is within you"
Joseph Campbell
"Your own path you make with every step"
Joseph Campbell
"The only truths are personal truths"
Italo Calvino
"You can make yourself love, not like way back but always I seem to know I am an exception"
Anne Sexton
"Even so at times I think I will never be like other people but is this exactly what I would want"
Anne Sexton
"I wouldn't have turned out the way I was if I didn't have all those old-fashioned values to rebel against."
Madonna
"Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering"
Charles Dickens
"Life is whatever we make of it. The traveler is the journey. What we see isn't what we see but what we are."
Fernando Pessoa
"Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself."
Hannah Arendt
"And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world"
John Steinbeck
"A man may be so much of everything, that he is nothing of anything"
Samuel Johnson
"I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do."
Haruki Murakami
"No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself."
Haruki Murakami
"Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are"
Julio Cortazar
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