Quotes about Self-discovery

Alice replied, rather shyly, I—I hardly know, Sir, just at present—at least I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.

Knowing who you are is vastly more important than knowing where you are going or even what you can do. Because he is your Creator, God has quite a bit to say to you about who you are. And who you truly are carries within it the revelation of what you could be.

You were created for truth. So no matter how frightening it may be at the time, we must always be truthful with ourselves.

Often the greatest poverty comes when we fail to realize what we have, just as the greatest deception comes when we do not know who we are.

Society does not exist for itself, but for the individual; and man goes into it, not to lose, but to find himself.

Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we cannot cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?

Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.

If I only knew who in fact I am, I should cease to behave as what I think I am; and if I stopped behaving as what I think I am, I should know who I am.

It is because we don't know who we are, because we are unaware that the Kingdom of Heaven is within us, that we behave in the generally silly, the often insane, and sometime criminal ways that are so characteristically human.

He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.

When you're young, you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a grownup. And I think you probably fear it, in a sense, too. There's a danger to feeling like an adult... like this whimsical kid in you is going to die or something. And then all of a sudden, one day you kind of feel like an adult and it's really nice.