May Sarton Quotes

The feeling of self-discovery, for me, is perennial.

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else.

I believe in the importance of seeking self-knowledge. The more I know myself, the more I feel empowered.

You don't find out who you are unless you work at it.

Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality.

I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out.

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self.

One of my problems is to find the self.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

I think your self emerges more clearly over time.

I think you only learn what kind of personality you have by committing to things.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.

Ultimately, I want people to be inspired to go on their own journey of self-discovery.

I enjoy exploring and finding myself.

I believe that self-discovery is an ongoing thing.

I love to watch human beings figuring out their limitations.

The exploration of oneself is usually also an exploration of the world at large, of other writers, a process of comparison with oneself with others, discoveries of kinships, gradual illumination of one's own potentialities.

Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems.

No one can tell you who you are and what you are made of, only you yourself know what you are made of, and only you yourself can do the work to become who you want to be.

Self knowledge is the beginning of self improvement.

Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world

The core of understanding lies in the individual mind, and until that is touched everything is uncertain and superficial. Truth cannot be perceived until we come to fully understand our potential and ourselves. After all, knowledge in the martial arts ultimately means self-knowledge.

You have to know who you are to grow to your potential. But you have to grow in order to know who you are.

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.