quotes about Self Discovery
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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.
-- Carol ShieldsSource : Carol Shields (2008). “The Stone Diaries: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.82, Penguin
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To be ourselves causes us to be exiled by many others, and yet to comply with what others want causes us to be exiled from ourselves.
-- Clarissa Pinkola Estes -
We get closer to God as we get more intimately and understandingly acquainted with the things He has created. I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for one's self.
-- George Washington Carver -
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
-- Germaine GreerSource : The Times 1 Feb. 1986
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
-- Gertrude SteinSource : Gertrude Stein (2013). “Everybody's Autobiography”, p.42, Vintage
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No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Listen. Make a way for yourself inside yourself. Stop looking in the other way of looking.
-- Rumi -
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Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
-- Thomas Merton -
How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?
-- Vincent Van Gogh