And this is the simple truth: that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself, to be on firm ground.

Know thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away.

The majority of people are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others, terribly objective sometimes, but the real task is, in fact, to be objective toward oneself and subjective toward all others.

How shall I grasp it? Do not grasp it. That which remains when there is no more grasping is the Self.

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

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.

It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning round.

Most of us do not like to look inside ourselves for the same reason we don't like to open a letter that has bad news.

Who looks outside dreams; who looks inside wakes.

Seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line. For self is a sea boundless and measureless.

Recover the source of all strength in yourself, and all else will be added to you ... political freedom, the mastery of human thought, the hegemony of the world.

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at last, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.

We are influenced by something which is close and similar to the roots of our soul. Real influence is that which helps us be ourselves, that which elicits the hidden, the deepest secrets in ourselves.

Actualization of self cannot be sought as a goal in its own right ... Rather, it seems to be a by-product of active commitment of one's talents to some cause, outside the self, such as the quest for beauty, truth, or justice.

It doesn't happen all at once. You become. It takes a long time.

He who knows others is learned; He who knows himself is wise.

There is no purifier like knowledge in this world: time makes man find himself in his heart.

O wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An foolish notion.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.