Quotes about Self-discovery
In other words, we are never freer than when we become most ourselves, most human, most just, most excellent, and the like.
— Os Guinness
Be you because everyone else is taken!
— Oscar Wilde
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well worth remembering from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
— Oscar Wilde
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
— Oscar Wilde
I have never met the man I could despair of after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of God.
— Oswald Chambers
Sorrow removes a great deal of a person's shallowness, but it does not always make that person better. Suffering either gives me to myself or it destroys me. You cannot find or receive yourself through success, because you lose your head over pride. And you cannot receive yourself through the monotony of your daily life, because you give in to complaining. The only way to find yourself is in the fires of sorrow.
— Oswald Chambers
The Lord's questions always reveal the true me to myself.
— Oswald Chambers
Most of us fear that in growing old, we'll become a shell of ourselves. But, of course, it's the youthful versions of ourselves that are our shells; we must leave them behind like a snakeskin. We must grow out of ourselves to grow beyond our old limits, or else risk being suffocated by the sediment of our own history.
— Pamela Redmond Satran
Making peace with my past was the first step; being grateful for it was the second. Now, at last, I can appreciate the woman those experiences created: me.
— Pamela Redmond Satran
Human beings are always assigning to themselves some kind of identity. There are only two places to look. Either you will be getting your identity vertically, from who you are in Christ, or you will be shopping for it horizontally in the situations, experiences, and relationships of your daily life. This
— Paul David Tripp
Either you will be getting your identity vertically, from who you are in Christ, or you will be shopping for it horizontally in the situations, experiences, and relationships of your daily life.
— Paul David Tripp
We must be ourselves, we must decide where to go.
— Paul Tillich