Quotes about Self-discovery
True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
— Joseph Addison
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.
— Joseph Campbell
It occurred to me then that for the first time in as long as I could remember, I had absolutely no desire to log back into the OASIS.
— Ernest Cline
Gut', sagte er und zwinkerte mir zu. 'Mach nicht denselben Fehler wie ich. Versteck dich nicht ewig hier drin.
— Ernest Cline
I can't really put it into words; in any case I am not yet as honest with myself as I should be and it is always hard to get to the bottom of things with words.
— Etty Hillesum
We care more for our possessions with which we hope to make our way in the world than with our thoughts and dreams which tell us who we are in the world.
— Eugene Peterson
The difficult pastoral art is to encourage people to grow in excellence and to live selflessly, at one and the same time to lose the self and find the self. It is paradoxical, but it is not impossible.
— Eugene Peterson
But if you're content to be simply yourself, you will become more than yourself.
— Eugene Peterson
It is easier to find guides, someone to tell you what to do, than someone to be with you in a discerning, prayerful companionship as you work it out yourself. This is what spiritual direction is.
— Eugene Peterson
Each of us was meant to be an original, but most of us die merely a copy. Anyone who discovers who God made him or her to be would never want to be anyone else.
— Bill Johnson
No one who discovers who God has made him or her to be would want to be anyone else.
— Bill Johnson
When we know who He made us to be, we'll never want to be anyone else. He has wrapped up His significance in the destiny of every person He called to Himself for salvation.
— Bill Johnson