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28 Psychology Quotes About Finding Yourself: A Traveler’s Collection

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During my travels, I’ve collected a bunch of quotes related to self discovery. Here’s a list of 27 quotes about finding yourself that act as reminders about the importance of living an authentic life. They’ve been helpful learning tools for me, and hopefully they’re of use to you as well.

Blake Miner

Blake Miner

Blake is a traveling social scientist (MSocSc) and entrepreneur who writes about the psychology of personal freedom, travel, and location independent business. He's the founder of Flâneur Life, an internet home for free range humans.
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Quotes About Finding Yourself & Self Discovery

“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

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”

Aristotle

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

Marcel Proust 

“Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”

Carl Jung
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“To find yourself, think for yourself.”

Socrates

“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.”

Lao Tzu

“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

“Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.”

St. Augustine

“Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.”

Epictetus
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“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”

Mahatma Gandhi

“I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

“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

“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.”

Henry David Thoreau
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“I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.”

Maya Angelou

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”

Mahatma Gandhi

“Go find yourself first so you can also find me.”

Rumi

Should we say the self, once perceived, becomes the soul?

Theodore Roethke

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

Aldous Huxley
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“Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.”

Richard Wright

“It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too.”

H.W. Shaw

“Not all who wander are lost.”

J.R.R. Tolkien

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born, and the day you find out why.”

Mark Twain

“A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.”

Henry Miller

“Follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be.”

Joseph Campbell

“If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.”

Maya Angelou

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”

Oscar Wilde

What other quotes about finding yourself would you add to the list? Let me know in the comments!

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