Quotes about Self-discovery

It's miserable living someone else's life, and it is downright suffocating to live beneath your potential.

Do you have any idea who you have the capacity to become? If you were not bound by the confines of your mind, who might you become?

Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the wise, for along its hallowed courts the King in his beauty deigns to walk.

For after years of living in a cage, a lion no longer even believes it is a lion . . . and a man no longer believes he is a man.

The problem is you don't know what your problem is. You think your problem is your main problem, but that's not the problem at all. The problem is you don't know what your problem is and that's your main problem.

I feel like a fraud... My name is not even actually Ashton. Ashton is my middle name.

I was not a hypocrite, with one real face and several false ones. I had several faces because I was young and didn't know who I was or wanted to be.

She wants to have her notebooks so that the flimsy framework of events, as she has constructed them in her school notebook, will be provided with walls and become a house she can live in. Because if the tottering structure of her memories collapses like a clumsily pitched tent, all that Tamina will be left with is the present, that invisible point, that nothingness moving slowly toward death.

Not even your love could withhold you from fulfilling your own personal legend.

All the great teachers have left a similar message: Go within, discover your invisible higher self and know God as the love that is within you.

I love working, I'd be dead if I hadn't found myself as an actor I didn't have to be successful.

How shall we live in order to be happy?" Your ability to ask and answer that question correctly for yourself—and then to follow where your answer leads you—will largely determine whether you achieve your own happiness, and how soon.