Quotations About Self-Discovery II

We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


"Know thyself?" If I knew myself, I'd run away. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes. ~Hugh Prather


And if you find everything as soon as you look for it, you find it in vain, you look for it in vain. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart. ~George Michael, "Kissing A Fool"


To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to keep your soul alive. ~Robert Louis Stevenson


Let your heart guide you. It whispers, so listen carefully. ~Littlefoot's mother, Land Before Time


You're always in either first or fifth, but you know there's a lot of great gears in between. ~Tony to Angela on Who's The Boss


If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life. ~James A. Michener


It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself. Makes you wonder what else you can do that you've forgotten about. ~Alan Ball, American Beauty, 1999


One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up. ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche


If you're not a rebel by the age of twenty, you've got no heart, but if you haven't turned establishment by thirty, you've got no brains. ~Swimming with Sharks, 1994, written & directed by George Huang, spoken by the character Buddy Ackerman played by Kevin Spacey


They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. ~Confucius


Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason, not that you have no reason for living. ~Tom O'Connor


In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of persons, and of oneself. ~André Gide


A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything. ~Samuel Johnson, Boswell, Life of Johnson, 1783


No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious. ~George Bernard Shaw


There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives. ~Josephine Hart


God, why do I storm heaven for answers that are already in my heart? Every grace I need has already been given me. Oh, lead me to the Beyond within. ~Macrina Wieherkehr


Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal. ~Russell Lynes


Never be afraid to sit awhile and think. ~Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun


Truth hurts - not the searching after; the running from! ~John Eyberg