Self Discovery Quotes

"I want to see if I can. I don’t know if I can. I want to find out. I want to see. I’m going to do what I always do; I’m going to break it down to its smallest form, smallest detail, and go after it. Day by day, one day at a time." "Everything has a purpose. And that purpose has a story that goes along with it. It just depends on what your passion is." "The odd thing is that I wound up learning more about the world around me by having a singular focus inside of me." "The examples are endless but my philosophy is simple. Once I knew my seed, I was able to discover my muse and my purpose for being was crystal clear." "My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost." "It takes a long time to become young." "Delight in meditation and solitude. Compose yourself, be happy. You are a seeker." "Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it." "The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart." "There is no path to happiness. Happiness is the path." "Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even." "I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want." "Each time I thought I had achieved my ‘life’s purpose,’ I discovered it was only another step in my journey." "You don’t sign up for a divorce when you get married. It’s very painful. But it’s taught me a great deal about myself." "Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me." "Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another." "No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human breast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed." "When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself." "Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free." "The act of discovering who we are will force us to accept that we can go further than we think."