Once you discover that failure is survivable, your fear of it subsides. Failure is not opposite to success, just part of its process.

When I step out on stage in front of thousands of people, I don’t feel that I’m being brave. It can take much more courage to express true feelings to one person. […] In spite...

When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope that, in the course of a few years, we...

History, writing, infect after a time a man’s sense of himself…

He went to India to “find himself” last year, but evidently he wasn’t there, and he came back empty-handed.

the undiscovered self”; being alive without knowing why.

Your retirement does not mean you are tired but you have learned more or acquired more experience.

I’ve started to feel very odd within my own life. It’s most peculiar to feel lonely inside your own life.

At the center of your beingyou have the answer;you know who you areand you know what you want.

Some people say they haven’t yet found themselves. But the self is not something one finds; it is something one creates.

We shall not cease from explorationAnd the end of all our exploringWill be to arrive where we startedAnd know the place for the first time.

It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you have never faced it before. It is frightening when a...

We can’t be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a...

Each man had only one genuine vocation – to find the way to himself….His task was to discover his own destiny – not an arbitrary one – and to live it out wholly and resolutely...

I’m like Waldo, in that I’m trying to find myself. And I’m wearing a red and white striped sweater.

self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.

Sometimes our emotions rule us. How we handle the consequences . . . defines us.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

I drank from the crisp mountain stream, tasting filtered sky with a mossy undertone. I’ve never understood how being loved fully could change your entire perspective of the world. I only ever understood the wistfulness...

Of course you have passions and talents. Of course you have some purpose in the world. Your emotions are guiding you towards it. Each time you discover something that you like or something that you...

It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated...

It is quite interesting to discover who we really are. It might take some time, but eventually we do.

It’s called ”being an artist” for a reason; it’s something YOU ARE. It’s how you live. It’s WHO you are. How you spend your life and what you leave behind.

I am a wanderer and mountain-climber, said he to his heart, I love not the plains, and it seemeth I cannot long sit still.And whatever may still overtake me as fate and experience—a wandering will...

And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic nor popular – but one must take it because it is right.

Nothing can be more perfect in my world than the imperfection it must match.

Life is a valuable and unique opportunityto discover who you are.But it seems as soon as you nearanswering that age-old question,something unexpected always happensto alter your course.And who it is you thought you weresuddenly changes.Then...

To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one’s self…. And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one’s self.

Courage doesn’t happen when you have all the answers. It happens when you are ready to face the questions you have been avoiding your whole life.

Once you’ve recognized your own limits, you’ve raised yourself to a higher level of being, since you’re closer to the real you…

We spend our lives asking the question, ‘What do people want me to do? Who do they want me to be?’ But this is a betrayal of our inner truth. We should be investing our...

If you haven’t found yourself yet, it’s difficult to help someone to discover himself. False leaders make more false leaders!

I will bless thee -His Beatitude is Your Beautification

I suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses me. Only at night and all alone, withdrawn, forgotten and lost, with no...

As a human being, we are on a continuous journey of self-discovery and experience.

Dare to be different. Dare to accept yourself for who YOU are. Dare to live your life without limits. Dare to follow YOUR dreams. Dare to explore, experience, and make mistakes. Dare to live your...

I believe one has to escape oneself to discover oneself.

are all my years of hard work unraveling before my eyes, or am I just having an episode?” For the sake of personal growth and the pursuit of equanimity, I choose the latter and accept...

I have realized; it is during the times I am far outside my element that I experience myself the most. That I see and feel who I really am, the most! I think that’s what...

The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, person and family history, belief systems, and often nationalistic,...

The only questions I’ll ask my clone, are ones in which I already know the answer. This is the path to self-discovery.

Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

I don’t want someone to believe my lies, I need someone to accept my truths.

Do you ever feel that way?””Lonely?”I search for the words. “Restless. As if you haven’t really met yourself yet. As is you’d passed yourself once in the fog, and your heart leapt – ‘Ah! There...

When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.

In your heart, you have a song that will change the world, once you give yourself permission to sing.

Have love for your inner Self and everything else is done for you.

A journey is a gesture inscribed in space, it vanishes even as it’s made. You go from one place to another place, and on to somewhere else again, and already behind you there is no...

I am living a simple life with a complicated mind and I have yet to find a state of mind where I feel safe with who I am, where I am, with what I do.

Until you are able to answer the question of self, you’ll still be living under someones shadows