21 Inspired Quotations About Discovering Your True Self

1. “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.” – Mark Twain

2. “There is no satisfaction that can compare with looking back across the years and finding you’ve grown in self-control, judgment, generosity, and unselfishness.” – Ella Wheeler Wilcox

3. “People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.” – Thomas Szasz

4. “If you don’t get lost, there’s a chance you may never be found.” – Anonymous

5. “There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.” – Aldous Huxley

6. “There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.” – Benjamin Franklin

7. “You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.” – James A. Froude

8. “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.” – Douglas Adams

9. “Know yourself. Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.” – A

Landers

10. “Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.” – Hugh Prather

11. “You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.” – Jerry Gillies

12. “A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.” – Jean de La Fontaine

13. “If you resist reading what you disagree with, how will you ever acquire deeper insights into what you believe? The things most worth reading are precisely those that challenge our convictions.” – Anonymous

14. “It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too.” – H.W. Shaw

15. “The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.” – Muhammad Ali

16. ”What you discover on your own is always more exciting than what someone else discovers for you – it’s like the marriage between romantic love and an arranged marriage.” – Terrence Rafferty

17. “Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” – Oscar Wilde

18. “The only journey is the journey within.” – Rainer Maria Rilke

19. “All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.” – James Thurber

20. “Man can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as from a lack of bread.” – Richard Wright

21. “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” – Aristotle