Quotes about Self-discovery

I made this film 'The Beach,' which didn't take place in a city, and it didn't really suit me.

Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.

Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.

Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

The purpose of life seems to be to acquaint a man with himself and whatever science or art or course of action he engages in reacts upon and illuminates the recesses of his own mind. Thus friends seem to be only mirrors to draw out and explain to us ourselves; and that which draws us nearer our fellow man, is, that the deep Heart in one, answers the deep Heart in another, -- that we find we have (a common Nature) -- one life which runs through all individuals, and which is indeed Divine.

The ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim.

Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine

And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you

What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.

If a person is constantly reading and absorbing the thoughts of others, their growth will be stunted. In order to fully develop, we need periods of solitude, self-inquiry, and recovery.