self-discovery Quotes

Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.

The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.

Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.