Self Discovery Journey Quotes

Writing the story of their own life allows the author to parse their story into examinable segments while continuing to engage in the act of communion and creation. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster

The journey to a peaceful and blessed life begins when you take 100 percent responsibility for your life instead of blaming others. ~ Nitin Namdeo

For the Gypsy, it's moments in time that count, not interpretations or rhetorical questions or resolutions or justifications, and not even the journey's end, for the journey never ends. Just moments in time. They are born for disappearing ~ Karl Wiggins

Everywhere you go, you shall find dramatic splendor and awe because your majestic soul is part of the vivid whole, and nothing about you is ignoble. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Personal happiness is an end game; it is not an immediate necessity. A person whom attains lasting happiness will necessarily endure many hardships. People earn happiness by courageously braving the storms of life, instead of merely existing. A person must steep oneself in the type of experiences that girds one when times on the streets are the meanest. I will garner a comforting sense of self-satisfaction from taking the longer and more difficult road to personal happiness. I can never again work exclusively for money. I shall seek truth wherever it exists, muster the courage to plunge along headfirst without fear, maintain personal dreams when all hope seems lost, and adamantly refuse to be mollified or satisfied with anything less than my very best work. I will dedicate personal efforts to mining my substratum while maintaining a diligent stewardship of a cherished central individuality. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster

If you cannot fix the situation may be the situation is meant to fix youu ~ Ikechukwu Joseph

Above all else, be true to yourself. Do what YOU want to do. Walk alone and be your own judge. It'll be a bumpy road sometimes, but you'll carry yourself a little taller at the end of each and every journey. In the end nobody except you cares whether you run your life at the beck and call of everyone else or whether you choose to be a Warrior-Sage, living your own life.
And that's the way it should be. ~ Karl Wiggins

A journey through nature is always a road that leads to self-discovery. ~ Toni Sorenson

There is of course a deep spiritual need which the pilgrimage seems to satisfy, particularly for those hardy enough to tackle the journey on foot. ~ Edwin Mullins

This is no dream, Novi. Everything you are experiencing is real and until you accept that, you will not be able to go home."
"Yeah, okay. Sure. Twin queens, talking otters, Autumn Fae, houses suspended in midair. Yep, totally real. Got it. ~ Brynn Myers

That's because self discovery happens through experiences, not from introspection. ~ Sheena Hutchinson

Old age is not a limitation or that your time have expired. Retirement is not that you are tired.You have more experience ~ Ikechukwu Joseph

Self discovery is something you cannot buy ~ Jan Somers

In everyone's inner solitude there is that bright and warm hearth. The idea of the unconscious, even though it is a very profound and wonderful idea, has sometimes frightened people away from coming back to their own hearth. We falsely understand the subconscious as the cellar where all our repression and self-damage is housed. Out of our fear of ourselves we have imagined monsters down there. Yeats says, "Man needs reckless courage to descend into the abyss of himself." In actual fact, these demons do not account for all the subconscious. The primal energy of our soul holds a wonderful warmth and welcome for us. One of the reasons we were sent to earth was to make this connection with ourselves, this inner friendship. The demons will haunt us, if we remain afraid. All the classical mythical adventures externalize demons. In battle with them, the hero always grows, ascending to new levels of creativity and poise. Each inner demon holds a precious blessing that will heal and free you. To receive this gift, you have to lay aside your fear and take the risk of loss and change that every inner encounter offers. ~ John O'Donohue

But none of that matters. When I see you, I remember that you made me want to drown rather than be myself. ~ Courtney Milan

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

Title: Teaching Writing Based on Journaling Concepts of Thoreau Thesis: Information processing generates active students. My thesis is to engage in remembering place. Through my own experience of basing my newest novel entitled The Passing Light on my own travel diary, I create strategies based on the travel journaling of Thoreau. My students create E- journals as primary sources for essays. Writing based on keen observation and self discovery is a part of learning to write. ~ Maryann Diedwardo

Your unlived tomorrow is more important than your Lived yesterday ~ Ikechukwu Joseph

Because that's the thing about mean people: They make you think that the world will never work, that there are divides that you will fall into if you approach. It takes a whole lot of good people to fill in the breach created by a single mean one. ~ David Levithan

In ourselves our safety must be sought.
By our own right hand it must be wrought. ~ William Wordsworth

Gratification comes when you help someone else. ~ Trenice Carter

One trend I see is the rejection of growth for self-discovery and the pursuit of authentic community. So we keep whittling our spiritual community to a smaller and smaller and more exclusive inner circle. The problem is if the diagnoses are wrong, so will be the cure. ~ Erwin McManus

History is the long struggle of man, by exercise of his reason, to understand his environment and to act upon it. But the modern period has broadened the struggle in a revolutionary way. Man now seeks to understand, and act on, not only his environment, but himself; and this has added, so to speak, a new dimension to reason and a new dimension to history. ~ Edward Hallett Carr

A millenarian fire burned in Oppenheimer's spirit, fueled by his pride as a world-historical individual, by his fear that the natural force he loosed upon the world would escape all human control, and by a pure-hearted longing to ensure that his discovery of the devastation latent in the elemental substance of the world would serve concord rather than the ultimate discord, perpetual peace rather than permanent self-destruction. ~ Algis Valiunas

For us to go to Italy and to penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery ~ D.H. Lawrence

When the artist finds himself he is lost. The fact that he has succeeded in never finding himself is regarded by Max Ernst as his only lasting achievement. ~ Max Ernst

The only difference between us is that I am aware of my natural state, while you are bemused ... We discover it by being earnest, by searching, enquiring, questioning daily and hourly, by giving one's life to this discovery. ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

I mean, I really liked him to the point where being around him was sort of wonderful and painful all at the same time, you know? ~ Kenneth Logan

Education gives light, life and liberty. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

True self-discovery begins where your comfort zone ends. ~ Adam Braun

The pursuit of a greater self is a holy-being. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You ought to thirst for the living water. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Endurance is frequently a form of indecision. ~ Elizabeth Bibesco

But she's going to see the world and she's going to feel the wind in her hair. And she's going to solve all her crosswords in ink. ~ Fredrik Backman

What you are you do not see, what you see is your shadow. ~ Rabindranath Tagore

A man who reads will find himself. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I would argue that a life that lacks movement and discovery of the needs of our authentic self - true growth - fails to be in service to the higher good. It may even be accurate to say that we cannot truly be in service to others, even those whom we profess to love, without first discovering our true path. This is the path that makes our heart rejoice - although it may take all the courage we have to walk it. ~ Stephanee Killen

Dare to conquer your soul. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If you would find gold, you must search where gold is. ~ William Juneau

Listen. Make a way for yourself inside yourself. Stop looking in the other way of looking. ~ Rumi

The trees are bedecked with snow, the air is perfumed; how sweet, how dark the sultry fragrance. Forever hypnotising, always haunting. I want to inhale the fragrance of your skin, drink from your open mouth. ~ Suzy Davies

Art, literature, and philosophy are attempts to found the world anew on a human freedom: that of the creator; to foster such an aim, one must first unequivocally posit oneself as a freedom. The restrictions that education and custom impose on a woman limit her grasp of the universe...Indeed, for one to become a creator, it is not enough to be cultivated, that is, to make going to shows and meeting people part of one's life; culture must be apprehended through the free movement of a transcendence; the spirit with all its riches must project itself in an empty sky that is its to fill; but if a thousand fine bonds tie it to the earth, its surge is broken. The girl today can certainly go out alone, stroll in the Tuileries; but I have already said how hostile the street is: eyes everywhere, hands waiting: if she wanders absentmindedly, her thoughts elsewhere, if she lights a cigarette in a cafe, if she goes to the cinema alone, an unpleasant incident can quickly occur; she must inspire respect by the way she dresses and behaves: this concern rivets her to the ground and self. "Her wings are clipped." At eighteen, T.E. Lawrence went on a grand tour through France by bicycle; a young girl would never be permitted to take on such an adventure...Yet such experiences have an inestimable impact: this is how an individual in the headiness of freedom and discovery learns to look at the entire world as his fief...[The girl] may feel alone within the world: she never stands up in front of i ~ Simone De Beauvoir

If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are. ~ Kristin Hannah

A paradox is a storm that rains on itself. ~ Shannon L. Alder

Putting someone down with name calling reveals your own low self-esteem. ~ Stephen Richards

If discovering your purpose is really about self-discovery, your darkness shows you where you most need to grow. ~ SHELLEY PREVOST

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

Knowledge is not discovery, but recognition. ~ Raheel Farooq

If I were surrounded by people who always approved of me, I wouldn't need such a deep relationship with my own sense of right and wrong. And you know what that means? It means that other people's approval is actually a hindrance, more than a helper, when it comes to self-discovery. ~ Vironika Tugaleva

Come to the Root of the Root of your Self ~ Rumi

Devote yourself to reading, learning and writing. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Discover your gift if you don't want to live the life of an ordinary person ~ Sunday Adelaja

The very discovery of these hidden things is in itself a purifying experience! The soul needs to discover what is inside. The self nature needs to see what it really is, and what it is like-right to the very bottom. ~ Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon

Search deep within your soul, you will find the light. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Bottom line is, even if you see 'em coming, you're not ready for the big moments. No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it does. So what are we, helpless? Puppets? No. The big moments are gonna come. You can't help that. It's what you do afterwards that counts. That's when you find out who you are. ~ Joss Whedon

Scientists are human - they're as biased as any other group. But they do have one great advantage in that science is a self-correcting process. ~ Cyril Ponnamperuma

The true voyage of self-discovery lies not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. - MARCEL PROUST ~ Kristin Hannah

Seek spirituality of thy soul. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Dive deep and make your discovery. ~ Fennel Hudson