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Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging finding yourself quotes, finding yourself sayings, and finding yourself proverbs.
Famous Finding Yourself Quotes
- “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
- “There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.” ~ Aldous Huxley
- “Look at your life. Look at the ways in which you define who you are and what you’re capable of achieving. Look at your goals. Look at the pressures applied by the people around you and the culture in which you were raised. Look again. And again. Keep looking until you realize, within your own experience, that you’re so much more than who you believe you are. Keep looking until you discover the wondrous heart, the marvelous mind, that is the very basis of your being.” ~ Tsoknyi Rinpoche
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“To find yourself, think for yourself.” ~ Socrates
- “Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
- “Before you find out who you are, you have to figure out who you aren’t.” ~ Iyanla Vanzant
- “When your world falls apart and you’re left with just yourself, you’re forced to discover who you are without all the beliefs, expectations, views, & self-image provided by some teacher or system. The calculating mind gives way to the intuitive mind, Knowing without Thinking.” ~ Gabrielle Roth
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“The first step to becoming what God made you to be is to stop worrying about what others want you to be.” ~ Rick Warren
- “Finding happiness is like finding yourself. You don’t find happiness, you make happiness. You choose happiness. Self-actualization is a process of discovering who you are, who you want to be and paving the way to happiness by doing what brings you the most meaning and contentment to your life over the long run.” ~ David Leonhardt , Finding yourself quotes life
- “Find out who you are and be that person. That’s what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.” ~ Ellen DeGeneres
- “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” ~ Steve Jobs
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“Why fit in when you were born to stand out?” ~ Dr. Seuss
- “I am not this body. I am in this body, and this is part of my incarnation and I honor it but that isn’t who I am.” ~ Ram Dass
- “I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but I cannot live any other way. How would it be to live a lie every minute of your life.” ~ Alison Goodman
- “All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.” ~ James Thurber
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“A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.” ~ Jean de La Fontaine
- “If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don’t want to be.” ~ Dale Carnegie
- “Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” ~ Carl Jung
- “Genuine relationships depend first on a healthy relationship with ourselves.” ~ Sonia Choquette
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“Those who matter don’t mind, and those who mind don’t matter.” ~ Bernard Baruch
- “You will never understand who you are until you understand who God is.” ~ Billy Graham
- “Life isn’t about finding yourself; it’s about creating yourself. So live the life you imagined.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
- “Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you – all of the expectations, all of the beliefs – and becoming who you are.” ~ Rachel Naomi Remen
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“Do what you will while you’re able, find what it is that you seek.” ~ Xavier Rudd
- “Get out into the sunlight-out where everything is-with a vibration that is so dominant that those who annoy you, those who don’t agree with you, those who make your life feel uncomfortable, don’t come into your experience, because your vibration-through your practice-has become so clear, so pure, so clean, so in keeping with what you want, that the world that revolves around you just feels like that. That’s what you planned.” ~ Esther Hicks
- “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “The trail compels you to know yourself and to be yourself, and puts you in harmony with the universe. It makes you glad to be living. It gives health, hope, and courage, and it extends that touch of nature which tends to make you kind.” ~ Enos Mills
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“Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.” ~ Hugh Prather
- “To contact the deeper truth of who we are, we must engage in some activity or practice that questions what we assume to be true about ourselves.” ~ A. H. Almaas
- “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.” ~ Steve Jobs
- “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
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“You were born with everything you need to answer the call of your soul.” ~ Marie Forleo
- “When you make the finding yourself – even if you’re the last person on Earth to see the light – you’ll never forget it.” ~ Carl Sagan
- “It’s not about finding a home so much as finding yourself” ~ Jason Behr
- “There’s nothing worse than finding yourself in a situation, a very demanding piece of work, and knowing that you’re not a true ally to the person who’s in charge of all that.” ~ Daniel Day-Lewis
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“Having limits to push against is how you find out what you can do.” ~ Sylvie Guillem
- “Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.” ~ Alexis Carrel
- “Self-esteem isn’t everything; it’s just that there’s nothing without it.” ~ Gloria Steinem
- “If you foolishly ignore beauty, then you will soon find yourself without it.” ~ Frank Lloyd Wright
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“I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.” ~ Michel de Montaigne
- “People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.” ~ Saint Augustine
- “Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.” ~ William Butler Yeats
- “We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel… is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.” ~ Ursula K. Le Guin
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“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” ~ Herman Melville
- “When you start supporting a football club, you don’t support it because of the trophies, or a player, or history, you support it because you found yourself somewhere there; found a place where you belong.” ~ Dennis Bergkamp
- “There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “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
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“Inner peace doesn’t come from getting what we want, but from remembering who we are.” ~ Marianne Williamson
- “It wasn’t about being happy or unhappy. I just didn’t want to be me anymore.” ~ Sarah Dessen
- “If you persist in ignoring your intuition, you may find yourself stuck in a permanent holding pattern instead of taking the risks that lead to creative growth.” ~ Nita Leland
- “There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.” ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
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“A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.” ~ Lucille Ball
- “Every child has the capacity to be everything.” ~ Doris Lessing
- “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” ~ Thomas Merton
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“Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.” ~ Joseph Campbell
- “The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.” ~ Oscar Wilde
- “The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.” ~ Richard Bach
- “Life is not about finding yourself. It’s mostly about chocolate. T-Shirt” ~ Darynda Jones
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“Know yourself. Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.” ~ Ann Landers
- “When we tell our own story, we teach the values that our choices reveal, not as abstract principals, but as our lived experience. We reveal the kind of person we are to the extent that we let others identify with us.” ~ Marshall Ganz
- “We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.” ~ Jean-Paul Sartre
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“You never find yourself until you face the truth.” ~ Pearl Bailey
- “The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.” ~ Anna Quindlen
- “Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming” ~ Matthew Arnold
