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Self-Discovery Quotes
45 FAMOUS QUOTES · SELF-DISCOVERY
Self-Discovery Quotes
Read 45 famous self-discovery quotes from great authors, with links to more quote topics.
"Travel far enough, you meet yourself."
David Mitchell
"Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves."Henry David Thoreau
"We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next, to find ourselves."
Pico Iyer
"Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection."
Lawrence Durrell
"To travel is to take a journey into yourself."
Danny Kaye
"We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us."
Marcel Proust
"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."Mahatma Gandhi
"Not all those who wander are lost."
J. R. R. Tolkien
"The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught."
Sri Aurobindo
"Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself."
Paulo Coelho
"No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge."
Kahlil Gibran
"Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again."
Joseph Campbell
"What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery."
Thomas Merton
“I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.”Ringo Starr
“I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that's not easy.”Marilyn Monroe
“Perhaps I have a wider range than I'd given myself credit for.”Larry David
“Eventually you get to this point where you understand what you want to do and get across and sound like.”Kendrick Lamar
“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.”Henry David Thoreau
“You shall become the person you are.”Friedrich Nietzsche
“Ageing is an extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been.”David Bowie
"Each man's life represents a road toward himself."
Hermann Hesse
"You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself."
Galileo Galilei
"Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself."
Hermann Hesse
"I must stand quite alone, if I am to understand myself and everything about me."
Henrik Ibsen