Self discovery Quotes SMS

Self discovery Quotes SMS

In order to judge properly one must

In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it.  This is true of countries, of persons, and of oneself.  ~André GideCUL

When you re read a classic do not

When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before.  You see more in you than there was before.  ~Clifton Fadiman

There came a time when the risk

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.  ~Anaïs Nin

I went to the woods because wished

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.  ~Henry David Thoreau, 1854

It is only when we silent the

It is only when we silent the blaring sounds of our daily existence that we can finally hear the whispers of truth that life reveals to us, as it stands knocking on the doorsteps of our hearts.  ~K.T. Jong

Leaving home in a sense involves kind

Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves.  ~Robert Neelly Bellah, Habits of the Heart, 1985, pt. 1, ch. 3, FW

You will never come up against a

You will never come up against a greater adversary than your own potential, my young friend.  ~Michael Piller and Michael Wagner, Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Evolution," Dr. Paul Stubbs to Wesley Crusher, original airdate 25 September 1989, stardate 43,125.8TPV

The thing that is really hard and

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. ~Anna Quindlen

Driving down the wrong road and knowing

Driving down the wrong road and knowing it,
The fork years behind, how many have thought
To pull up on the shoulder and leave the car
Empty, strike out across the fields; and how many
Are still mazed among dock and thistle,
Seeking the road they should have taken?
~Damon Knight, The Man in the Tree, 1984ch27

It is a puzzling thing the truth

It is a puzzling thing.  The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I’m looking for the truth," and so it goes away.  Puzzling.  ~Robert M. Pirsig

To dare to live alone is the

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.  ~Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 1825WLBUQ

We have five senses in which we

We have five senses in which we glory and which we recognize and celebrate, senses that constitute the sensible world for us.  But there are other senses – secret senses, sixth senses, if you will – equally vital, but unrecognized, and unlauded.  ~Oliver Sacks

For most men life is a search

For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.  ~Clifton FadimanPCR

I can teach anybody how to get

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

The man who views the world at

The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.  ~Muhammad Ali

Ones own self is well hidden from

One’s own self is well hidden from one’s own self; of all mines of treasure, one’s own is the last to be dug up.  ~Friedrich Wilhelm NietzschePMB92

It is good to feel lost because

It is good to feel lost… because it proves you have a navigational sense of where "Home" is.  You know that a place that feels like being found exists.  And maybe your current location isn’t that place but, Hallelujah, that unsettled, uneasy feeling of lost-ness just brought you closer to it.  ~Erika Harris, empathicwriter.comlifeblazing.com/2010/02/16/feeling-lost-lucky-youTPV

Thats the way things come clear all

That’s the way things come clear.  All of a sudden.  And then you realize how obvious they’ve been all along.  ~Madeleine L’Engle

You have to leave the city of

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.  What you’ll discover will be wonderful.  What you’ll discover is yourself.  ~Alan Alda

Be patient toward all that is unsolved

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue.  Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them.  And the point is, to live everything.  Live the questions now.  Perhaps you will find them gradually, without noticing it, and live along some distant day into the answer.  ~Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

If a man happens to find himself

If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.  ~James A. Michener

Man can starve from a lack of

Man can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as… from a lack of bread.  ~Richard Wright, Native Son, 1940WLBUQ

Just as we outgrow a pair of

Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they’re worn out and times – and this is the worst of all – before we have new ones.  ~G.C. Lichtenberg

If you havent had at least a

If you haven’t had at least a slight poetic crack in the heart, you have been cheated by nature.  ~Phyllis Battelle

You must learn what life is now

At your age, and with your talents, you[Y]ou must learn what life is now, not from me, but from life itself; but, if you will hear an old man’s opinion, I will give it you.  If you think you can temper yourself into manliness by sitting here over your books, supposing you will grow into it as a matter of course by a rule of necessity, in the same way as your body grows old, it is the very silliest fancy that ever tempted a young man into his ruin.  You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.  Go out into life, you will find your chance there, and only there.  ~James Anthony Froude, The Nemesis of Faith, 1849, commonly misattributed to Henry David ThoreauTPV even the “I will give it you” and not “give it to you” – also thanks walden.org/Library/Quotations/The_Henry_D._Thoreau_Mis-Quotation_Page

There are things which a man is

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 Dostoyevsky, “Notes from the Underground,” 1864

God why do i storm heaven for

God, why do I storm heaven for answers that are already in my heart?  Every grace I need has already been given me.  Oh, lead me to the Beyond within.  ~Macrina Wieherkehr

Theres more than one answer to these

There’s more than one answer to these questions
Pointing me in a crooked line.
And the less I seek my source for some definitive
The closer I am to fine.
~Indigo Girls, "Closer to Fine"

One may understand the cosmos but never

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.  ~G.K. Chesterton, "The Logic of Elfland," Orthodoxy, 1908WLBUQ

Every one of us has in him

Every one of us has in him a continent of undiscovered character.  Blessed is he who acts the Columbus to his own soul.  ~Author Unknown quoted in Words of Life edited by Charles L. Wallis

Decorate yourself from the inside out terri

Decorate yourself from the inside out.This always reminds me of the line from Veronica Shoffstall’s poem “…so you plant your own garden and nourish your own soul instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.” ~Terri Guillemets

The simplest questions are the most profound

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