Discovering Who You Are Quotes by David Leonhardt, T. S. Eliot, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Mark Twain, Carl Jung, Dr. Seuss and many others.
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.
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.
You don’t find happiness, you make happiness.
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.
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!
When I try to get clever I fail, so I stick with the basic issues of human life on earth – sex, death, relationships, discovering who you are, being hurt and confused.
As a teenager, you’re still discovering who you are, what your life is about, and who you want to be as a person. It’s very intense.
The starting point of discovering who you are, your gifts, your talents, your dreams, is being comfortable with yourself. Spend time alone. Write in a journal. Take long walks in the woods.
Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
Today you are you! That is truer than true!
