Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
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.
All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
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.
It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, wants to re-establish them. Ignorance irritates him and knowledge cloys.
What you discover on your own is always more exciting than what someone else discovers for you - it's like the marriage between romantic love and an arranged marriage.
There is no satisfaction that can compare with looking back across the years and finding you've grown in self-control, judgment, generosity, and unselfishness.
Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something.
Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.
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.
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.
Wanting to reform the world without discovering one's true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.
You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.
Like an old gold-panning prospector, you must resign yourself to digging up a lot of sand from which you will later patiently wash out a few minute particles of gold ore.
Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
One was a book I read by Mahatma Gandhi. In it was a passage where he said that religion, the pursuing of the inner journey, should not be separated from the pursuing of the outer and social journey, because we are not isolated beings.
Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already posses.
Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
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