Quotes about Self-discovery

You're always the person you were when you were born. You just keep finding new ways to express it.

The best thing about self-defense is knowing there is a self

safety. As Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote, "When the slave leaves bondage, his first act is to name himself.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

Circumstance does not make the man; it reveal him to himself

As the reaper of his own harvest, man learns both by suffering and bliss.

He ceases to argue about God who has found God within. Relying upon that calm strength which is not the strength of self, he lives God, manifesting in his daily life the Highest Goodness, which is Eternal Life.

Circumstances don't shape us, so much as they reveal us. As the masters of our thoughts, we are the authors of our environments. As the sole gardener of your own mind, you have more power than any other force in shaping your environment and your destiny.

Un hombre sólo empieza a ser hombre cuando deja de lamentarse y maldecir, y comienza a buscar la justicia oculta que gobierna su vida.

He who earnestly meditates first perceives a truth

It is in solitude only that a man can be truly revealed to himself, that he can come to understand his real nature, with all its powers and possibilities. The voice of the spirit is not heard in the hubbub of the world and amid the clamours of conflicting desires. There can be no spiritual growth without solitude.

Circumstances don't shape us, so much as they reveal us.