1. Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.-Richard Wright
2. 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
3. Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.-Aristotle
4. Know yourself. Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.-Ann Landers
5. Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
6. The only journey is the journey within.-Rainer Maria Rilke
7. Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.-Henry David Thoreau
8. 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
9. I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.-Eleanor Roosevelt
10. Should we say the self, once perceived, becomes the soul?-Theodore Roethke
11. Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.-Matthew Arnold
12. To find yourself, think for yourself.-Socrates
13. If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.-James A. Michener
14. In the end you don’t so much find yourself as you find someone who knows who you are.-Robert Brault
15. Don’t spend all of your time trying to FIND yourself. Spend your time CREATING yourself into a person that you’ll be proud of.-Sonya Parker
16. The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.-Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
17. Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.-Epictetus
18. Don’t worry about finding your soul mate. Find yourself.-Jason Evert
19. Whatever it takes to find the real you, don’t be daunted if the rest of the world looks on in shock.-Stephen Richards
20. When you fight yourself to discover the real you, there is only one winner.-Stephen Richards
21. Someday, somewhere – anywhere, unfailingly, you’ll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.-Pablo Neruda
22. Find yourself first-like yourself first-love yourself FIRST & friendship & love will naturally find YOU.-Mandy Hale
23. I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.-Maya Angelou
24. Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.-Herman Hesse
25. Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.-Lao-Tzu
26. First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.-Amos Bronson Alcott
27. Lose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find.-Catherine Of Siena
28. You’ve got to know yourself so you can at last be yourself.-D. H. Lawrence
29. Be who you are, and find yourself so you can be your own person and enjoy life with no regret.-Bonnie Zackson Koury
30. Your real self may be hiding somewhere, look for it within, when you find yourself, you can freely be what you want to be.-Michael Bassey Johnson