Self Discovery Quotes

"You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore." "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom" "Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another" "The things that we love tell us what we are." "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" "Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go" "To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself." "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" "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" "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." "The more man alienates himself from the world around him, the more he alienates himself also from his own inner world" "A man can be himself only so long as he is alone." "The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is" "The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself" "You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible" "Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is" "The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers" "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" "Through others we become ourselves" "Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are"