Top 1200 Self-Discovery Quotes & Sayings

True self-discovery begins where your comfort zone ends.

The feeling of self-discovery, for me, is perennial.

The camera is first a means of self-discovery and a means of self-growth. The artist has one thing to say - himself.

Self-discovery means learning to live free!

I believe that self-discovery is an ongoing thing.

Self-discovery is realistic. It's not built on ideas and philosophies. It's what works. Philosophies are nice if you like philosophies. But self-discovery is predicated on something that really brings you into enlightened states of mind.

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

There is really no practical help that one can offer: it is a matter of self-discovery, of one's own conviction, or working with one's own work; your style is what seems natural to you. It is a long process of discovery, one that never ends. I am working at it, and will be as long as I live.

It's important to let kids be themselves and to let them make mistakes. Self-discovery goes a long way.

People acting in their own self-interest is the fuel for all the discovery, innovation, and prosperity that powers the world.

Mysticism is an eclectic mixture of various forms of self-discovery that's primarily experimental.

So the history of discovery, particularly cosmic discovery, but discovery in general, scientific discovery, is one where at any given moment, there's a frontier. And there tends to be an urge for people, especially religious people, to assert that across that boundary, into the unknown, lies the handiwork of God. This shows up a lot.

Ultimately, I want people to be inspired to go on their own journey of self-discovery.

The reality of en-masse inner transformation of human beings by self-realisation is the most revolutionary discovery of the present age.

self-sacrifice is one of a woman's seven deadly sins (along with self-abuse, self-loathing, self-deception, self-pity, self-serving, and self-immolation).

Adversity is an opportunity for self-discovery.

If you want to save the snow leopard, or the giant Redwoods, or the Okavango delta, or the Amazon, or the atmosphere, or the Earth, or those you love, or yourself, or the human race, this is the only path that can achieve that-so the truth is the sooner you support and adopt this path of transformation through understanding the better. The choice is self-destruction or self-discovery.

Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.

What is it that is done to our children that their puberty should deform them? They have the joy of movement; they have an enterprising curiosity; they are ready for sensible self-denial; they dream ahead, and they have a faithful memory, and, above all, great compassion... The well-meaning educator who flatters and humours the young not only does a disservice to the community, but also damages the individual by depriving him of the opportunities of self-discovery.

It matters, it matters very much, what each of us chooses to do. The journey toward self-discovery and self-knowledge is not only life's highest adventure, but also the only way to transform society from one based on self-centeredness and compulsory compassion to one based on service and mutual responsibility.

I don't dictate particular styles of dress. I do teach classes in self discovery.

Art is not just ornamental, an enhancement of life. It is a path in itself, a way out of the predictable and conventional... a map to self discovery.

No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery - the source of truth.

The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.

No discovery of modern psychology is, in my opinion, so important as its scientific proof of the necessity of self-sacrifice (or discipline) to self-realization and happiness.

Love looks to the eternal. Love is indeed "ecstasy," not in the sense of a moment of intoxication, but rather as a journey, an on-going exodus out of the closed inward-looking self toward its liberation through self-giving... toward authentic self-discovery and indeed the discovery of God.

Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.

Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery - what it all means, the way the little bone near the ankle relates itself to the floor for a perfect stance, a perfect plie.

All education is self-discovery.

'Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind' was born out of my own journey of self-discovery within both my personal and professional life.

Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone.

Life is an endless process of self-discovery.

If we want authenticity, we have to initiate it. Self-discovery takes us to the wildest places on earth

Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important, but because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one's role in society, and the relation between the two.

Writing a novel is an act of self-annihilation as much as self-discovery. You can kill whole appetites and flood whole depths while plumbing them, but if you are serious about it you also get to put something into the world that wasn't quite there before.

Meditation means conscious self-expansion. Meditation means one's conscious awareness of the transcendental Reality. Meditation means the recognition or the discovery of one's own true self. It is through meditation that we transcend limitation, bondage and imperfection.

Out on the roads there is fitness and self-discovery and the persons we were destined to be.

When I do something, it is all about self-discovery. I want to learn and discover my own limits.

High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society.

I don't think there is a right approach to teaching self discovery. Every situation is unique.

In Zen, and in other forms of self discovery, we do have a transference that occurs where psychically, information, blocks of attention, are transferred to the student.

It is my experience that if a person practices self discovery with intent, they will be successful. Success is an outer sign that they are channeling energy correctly.

Participants in dance, both dancers and viewers, may experience catharsis and develop a sense of mastery or self-discovery.

Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. And for this serious task of imaginative discovery and self-discovery, there is and remains one perfect symbol: the printed book.

Those who condemn the self-righteous for the sake of self-discovery do so with ironic self-righteousness.

For a justice of this ultimate tribunal [the U.S. Supreme Court], the opportunity for self-discovery and the occasion for self-revelation is great.

Love and the self are one and the discovery of either is the realization of both.

Women have been denied access to advanced methods of self discovery throughout the ages.

You tend to understand yourself a little better after each role you play. There’s somewhat of a self-discovery.

What makes me put pen to paper? You know, that's the million-dollar question. I've been writing since I've been reading. It's not a question I think that's even meant to be answered, but it's something you always seek to discover the answer to. And the process of filmmaking is one of discovery, and self-discovery at that. Pleasure... it's not exactly what I would call fun, but it's absorbing.

Silence has many dimensions. It can be a regression and an escape, a loss of self, or it can be presence, awareness, unification, self-discovery. Negative silence blurs and confuses our identity, and we lapse into daydreams or diffuse anxieties. Positive silence pulls us together and makes us realize who we are, who we might be, and the distance between these two.

A lot of my music is about self-discovery because I focus on my teenage years.

The journey toward self-discovery is life's greatest adventure.

Bioenergetics is an adventure in self-discovery. It differs from similar explorations into the nature of the self by attempting to understand the human personality in terms of the human body. Most previous explorations focused their investigations on the mind.

Sometimes when we awaken from the bad dream of disowning ourselves, we think that the sojourn to self-discovery is a new one. But it is an ancient quest.

You don't have to meditate. You don't have to practice self-discovery and Buddhism. You should only practice self-discovery if you really have had it with the human world.

A scientific discovery is also a religious discovery. There is no conflict between science and religion. Our knowledge of God is made larger with every discovery we make about the world.

Gaining insight into one's underlying motives, it seems, is more like a belief conversion than a self-discovery process

The delights of self-discovery are always available.

When painters feel the need to make a shift toward self-discovery, they turn to black and white for a time.