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Self Discovery Quotes

To be ourselves causes us to be exiled by many others, and yet to comply with what others want causes us to be exiled from ourselves.

To be ourselves causes us to be exiled by many others, and yet to comply with what others want causes us to be exiled from ourselves.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Want, Causes, Self Discovery

What you are you do not see, what you see is your shadow.

Rabindranath Tagore
Shadow, Self Discovery
Rabindranath Tagore (2007). “Stray Birds”, p.5, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

One must know one's own secret.

Swami Nithyananda
Secret, Knows, Self Discovery

The life which is not examined is not worth living.

Plato
Life, Worth Living, Self Discovery

How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?

Vincent Van Gogh
Aries, Selfless Service, Self Discovery
Vincent van Gogh (1971). “Van Gogh's "diary"; the artist's life in his own words and art”

You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!

Gertrude Stein
Limits, Extraordinary, Self Discovery
Gertrude Stein (2013). “Everybody's Autobiography”, p.42, Vintage

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Carol Shields
Chapters, Self Discovery
Carol Shields (2008). “The Stone Diaries: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.82, Penguin

We discover in ourselves what others hide from us and we recognize in others what we hide from ourselves.

Luc de Clapiers
Humility, Hiding, Self Discovery
Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

Listen. Make a way for yourself inside yourself. Stop looking in the other way of looking.

Rumi
Way, Self Discovery
Jelaluddin Rumi (2000). “Feeling the Shoulder of the Lion: Poetry and Teaching Stories of Rumi”, p.88, Shambhala Publications

Come to the Root of the Root of your Self

Rumi
Self, Roots, Self Discovery
Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2016). “Love is a Stranger”, p.17, Shambhala Publications

All education is self-discovery.

Ray Bradbury
Discovery, Self, Self Discovery

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