Quotes about Self-discovery

Self-help is no help at all. Self-sacrifice is the way, my way, to finding yourself, your true self.

Surrendering is not repressing your personality. God wants to use your unique personality. Rather than its being diminished, surrendering enhances it. C. S. Lewis observed, "The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become — because he made us. He invented all the different people that you and I were intended to be…. It is when I turn to Christ, when I give up myself to His personality, that I first begin to have a real personality of my own.

A young man in his twenties wrote, "I feel like a failure because I'm struggling to become something, and I don't even know what it is. All I know how to do is to get by. Someday, if I discover my purpose, I'll feel I'm beginning to live.

The power is within you. It always has been. How far are you willing to expand the horizons of your thinking and stir that power awake?

There is no such thing as living alone, for all living is relationship; but to live without direct relationship demands high intelligence, a swifter and greater awareness for self-discovery.

How many of us can honestly say that we have plumbed the depths of our minds and hearts? How many of us regularly listen to ourselves with empathy and understanding—in the supportive way that a trusted friend can?

And I was taught to feel, perhaps too much, The self-sufficing power of solitude.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

The hardest battle you are ever going to have to fight is the battle to be just you.

Seek not good from without; seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

Savor powerlessness, after power, in every phase that matches it precisely; replace every old triumph with the new defeat; strengthen yourself on your weakness; win yourself back when so very lost.

Abbandonarsi ai propri pensieri per un'ora, ogni giorno, senza scopo: basta questo per rimanere qualcosa che somigli a un uomo