Self Discovery Quotes

"In every real man, a child is hidden that wants to play" "Everybody’s at war with different things. I’m at war with my own heart sometimes" "I've never had a drink in my life. I don't smoke. Do drugs. We're all just kids trying to figure it out." "Life itself is a risk and the one who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. They may avoid suffering and sorrow, but they simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live." "There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming." "Sometimes in our pursuit of happiness, we end up learning only that we were in pursuit of the wrong thing" "There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself" "Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies" "You do not need to leave your room Remain sitting at your table and listen Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked It has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet" "Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own" "The only meaning of life is the meaning we create." "People may call what happens at midlife a 'crisis,' but it’s not. It’s an unravelling a time when you feel a desperate pull to live the life you want to live, not the one you’re ‘supposed’ to live." "Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them." "Listen to the song that is playing in your heart" "Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?" "Everybody has a secret world inside of them." "Every adult life could be said to be defined by two great love stories. The first—the story of our quest for sexual love. The second—the story of our quest for a love affair with the world." "It is in dialogue and the sharing of ideas with others that we make sense of ourselves." "In our single life, we should use our time for growth, self-discovery and preparation for future love." "Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility."