Discovering Who You Are Quotes:

There's a lot about discovering who you are and how difficult that is. And it never stops.

- Libba Bray

topic: Difficult, Discovering, Discovering Who You Are

Finding happiness is like finding yourself. You don't find happiness, you make happiness. You choose happiness. Self-actualization is a process of discovering who you are, who you want to be and paving the way to happiness by doing what brings you the most meaning and contentment to your life over the long run.

- David Leonhardt

topic: Running, Self, Long, Discovering Yourself, Self Discovery

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

- Carl Jung

source: Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

topic: Life, Beautiful, Dream, Soul Life, Source Of Life

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

- T. S. Eliot

source: T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.1250, Faber & Faber

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Fear None, Courage To Change

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

- Bernice Johnson Reagon

topic: Motivational, Stay Strong, Business, Inspiring Business, Daily Challenges

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

- Dr. Seuss

source: "Happy Birthday to You!". Book by Dr. Seuss, 1959.

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Happy Children, Just Being You

I can teach anybody how to get, what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want. Once you are crystal clear about the intended end result that you seek to produce, all the ways that it can become a done deal start to reveal themselves to you. There are many who have accomplished exactly what you want to achieve and could show you the way. You are not ready to ask them because you are not clear and you have not determined which questions need answers.

- Mark Twain

topic: Inspirational Life, Needs, Done, Discovering Yourself, Mission And Vision

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

- Matthew Arnold

source: 'Self-Dependence' (1852) l. 31

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Sadness, Discovering Yourself, Old Self

The starting point of discovering who you are, your gifts, your talents, your dreams, is being comfortable with yourself. Spend time alone. Write in a journal. Take long walks in the woods.

- Robin Sharma

topic: Dream, Writing, Long Walks, Walks In The Woods, Discovering Who You Are

I am much more settled in who I am. I think a lot of your 20s is trying to figure out who you are - you're on your own, you've got you first job, you've got your first apartment, you're living away from your parents, you're just discovering who you are. I have deep, long friendships now and real relationships and I am so excited about the rest of my 40s.

- Sutton Foster

source: Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

topic: Jobs, Real, Thinking, Real Relationship, Long Friendship

When I try to get clever I fail, so I stick with the basic issues of human life on earth - sex, death, relationships, discovering who you are, being hurt and confused.

- Barbara Ess

topic: Hurt, Sex, Clever, Discovering Who You Are, Being Hurt

Pop Salvation is a genius take on discovering who you are by becoming what you most admire. If I didn’t know better, I’d think Lance Reynald watched me grow up. Marvelously endearing and insightful.

- Josh Kilmer-Purcell

topic: Growing Up, Thinking, Insightful, Discovering Who You Are

Zen is the game of insight, the game of discovering who you are beneath the social masks.

- Reginald Horace Blyth

source: Reginald Horace Blyth (1976). “Games Zen Masters Play: Writings of R. H. Blyth”

topic: Games, Mask, Social, Discovering Who You Are

As a teenager, you're still discovering who you are, what your life is about, and who you want to be as a person. It's very intense.

- Kaya Scodelario

source: "Discovery: Kaya Scodelario" by Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 14, 2011.

topic: Teenager, Want, Life Is, Discovering Who You Are