17 Inspirational Quotes About Self-Discovery

When you think about self-discovery, what comes to your mind? Finding Purpose? True Freedom? Whatever it is you define self-discovery as, its important to know that discovering it is important for your growth.

Here are 17 inspirational quotes about self-discovery:

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. ― Aristotle
When I discover who I am, I’ll be free. ― Ralph Ellison
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. ― Mahatma Gandhi
Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself to become a new person. ― Gerard Way
I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me. ― Hermann Hesse
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate. ― C.G. Jung
When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young. ― Maya Angelou
You’ll never be able to find yourself if you’re lost in someone else. ― Colleen Hoover
If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are. ― Kristin Hannah
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. ― Nelson Mandela
The only journey is the one within. ― Rainer Maria Rilke
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self. ― Aristotle
It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you have never faced it before. It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question ‘who am I’ except the voice inside herself. ― Betty Friedan
I suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses me. Only at night and all alone, withdrawn, forgotten and lost, with no connection to anything real or useful — only then do I find myself and feel comforted. ― Fernando Pessoa
To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one’s self…. And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one’s self. ― Søren Kierkegaard
We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them. ― John Irving
Courage doesn’t happen when you have all the answers. It happens when you are ready to face the questions you have been avoiding your whole life. ― Shannon L. Alder