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  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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Alan Alda's commencement speech at Connecticut College in New London, www.graduationwisdom.com. 1980.

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  I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Adventure, Dead Poets Society

  Walden ch. 2 (1854)

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  In Plato 'Apology' 38a

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• 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.

  Jerry Gillies

  Creativity, Discovery, Imagination

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  There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Time Must Have a Stop (1945) ch. 7

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  All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.

  James Thurber

  Running, Learning, Humor

  James Thurber (1978). “Further fables for our time”, Simon & Schuster

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  The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

  Marcel Proust

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Witty, Being Yourself

  Intentions "The Critic as Artist" pt. 2 (1891)

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• I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Discovery, Finding Yourself, Fleeing

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

  Sophia Loren

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Eternal Youth of Sophia Loren". www.theuppers.com. May 01, 2017.

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  Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

  Carl Jung

  Relationship, Leadership, Spiritual

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be.

  Robert Breault

  Discovery, Mind, Finding Your Path

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• Strive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your own heart.

  Teresa of Avila

  Heart, Eye, Soul

  Teresa of Avila (2011). “The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila, vol 2”, p.80, ICS Publications

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• Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Men, Progress

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.65, Wordsworth Editions

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• Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Literature, Ordinary, Missions

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• The delights of self-discovery are always available.

  Gail Sheehy

  Women, Caring, Discovery

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• Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Funny Inspirational, Wish, Common

  1857-8 The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, ch.12.

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• 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 Nietzsche

  Discovery, Self, Treasure

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• A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Discovery, Events, Awakening

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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• If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet.

  Neil Simon

  Pain, Positivity, Born

  Neil Simon (2011). “The Play Goes On: A Memoir”, p.248, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Life, Wisdom, Creating

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (2004). “Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary”, p.139, Transaction Publishers

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• Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile.

  Oscar Wilde

  Kings, People, Self Help

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.823, GENERAL PRESS

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• One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

  Blaise Pascal

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Discovery

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.

  Sophia Loren

  Inspirational, Positive, Mistake

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Inspirational, Real, Book

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.31, Ultramarine Publishing

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