self-discovery Quotes

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

The aim of life is self-development. To realize ones nature perfectly — that is what each of us is here for.

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.

Only the shallow know themselves.