If you’re uncertain about your purpose, don’t worry, you’re not alone. Over 8,000 people per month search the term ‘quotes about finding yourself’. If you’re looking or seeking or even uncomfortable, you’re probably right on track!

First off… you’re not lost. You’re on your way. ?Remember… “not all who wander are lost.”

Feeling lost is the first step to finding yourself.
~LeAura Alderson, iCreateDaily.com®

Table of Contents

• Face the Fear
  • Seek and Ye Shall Find
  • Audio Article – Quotes About Finding Yourself
• Purpose is the Horizon to Aim For
• A Call from Your Soul
• Finding Yourself – a Journey to You

Face the Fear

If you think you have the answers, you stop asking the questions. So it’s a very good thing that you’re asking questions and searching for answers!

It’s a good thing that you don’t know. Not knowing is the beginning of asking.

Do not fret uncertainty, doubt and the unknown. Friend the fear… examine it… take it out to lunch. Explore what it’s trying to tell you. Then send it on its way.

Face the fear and it dissolves like the night at dawn.
~LeAura Alderson, iCreateDaily.com®

Seek and Ye Shall Find

To help you find the ideas that speak to you, we’ve collected some of our favorite quotes about finding yourself. We hope these will encourage and inspire you to keep asking… keep seeking… and keep knocking, for ever there is another door… to explore.

“Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.”
~Matthew 7:7-8 King James Version

Audio Article – Quotes About Finding Yourself

If you’re seeking to find yourself and your purpose, then you’re right on track. Inquiry opens the door to discovery.
~LeAura Alderson, iCreateDaily.com®

Your Purpose is the Horizon Before You… Ever Expanding

Purpose is essential to a well-lived life. Purpose is your reason for being who you are and doing what you do. But relax.

You don’t have to have it all figured out before you pursue a life guided by purpose. Just head in the direction of what inspires you.
~LeAura Alderson, iCreateDaily.com®

If you’re feeling agitated and uneasy, that’s a good thing. We’re most inclined to move and change when we’re uncomfortable with what is… and pulled by what isn’t yet.

To change is to be uncomfortable with what is and pulled by what isn’t yet.
~LeAura Alderson, cofounder-iCreateDaily.com®

A Call from Your Soul

When your soul wants to communicate with you, how does it do that? How can it get your attention, especially in this increasingly attention deficit world where we’re constantly occupied.

Discomfort is one way. If you’re unhappy, depressed or uncomfortable where you are, chances are it’s a tap on the shoulder from your soul.

Finding yourself is a lifelong journey of discovery. The horizon of self is always moving and keeps you engaged in the pursuit. It is evolution by design.
~LeAura Alderson, cofounder-iCreateDaily.com®

Finding Yourself – a Journey to You

If you don’t know your purpose, no worries. You’re in the majority. Make the journey of discovering your purpose. Set your compass for the direction you think you want to go in and the things you think you want to be doing, and head in that direction.

The most important thing for you now is to generate movement in the direction of your dreams. Start. Sustain. Succeed.
~LeAura Alderson, cofounder-iCreateDaily.com®

If you’re not clear on your dreams, that’s awesome!

Awesome? How is that good? Because confusion and uncertainty can easily be reframed into an adventure of discovery… of a journey to you!

“To find yourself, think for yourself.”
~Socrates, Greek philosopher, 470-399 BC

So again, you’re in the right place, asking the right questions. These quotes about finding yourself are to help you find what resonates with you and launch from there into greater self discovery.

Think on these and journal whatever ideas and thoughts arise because of—and independent of—any prompts and answers from others.

Quotes About Finding Yourself

To seek is to open the door of discovery.
~LeAura Alderson, iCreateDaily.com®

“As you embark in the direction of your dreams, the way becomes more clear.”
~LeAura Alderson, iCreateDaily.com®

“The journey toward self-discovery is life’s greatest adventure.”
~ Arianna Huffington, Greek-American author, entrepreneur, b.7/15/1950

‘Finding yourself’ is not really how it works. You aren’t a ten-dollar bill in last winter’s coat pocket. You are also not lost. Your true self is right there, buried under cultural conditioning, other people’s opinions, and inaccurate conclusions you drew as a kid that became your beliefs about who you are. ‘Finding yourself’ is actually returning to yourself. An unlearning, an excavation, a remembering who you were before the world got its hands on you.
~Emily McDowell, writer, illustrator, speaker, teacher, entrepreneur 

Anything and everything you have experienced has been purposeful; it has brought you to where you are now. 
~Iyanla Vanzant, speaker, lawyer, spiritual teacher, author, life coach, TV personality

Purpose is usually a ‘why’, not a ‘what’. The ‘why’ is the soul of what you do. To discover your purpose, search for the ‘why’.
~LeAura Alderson, iCreateDaily.com®

Discovering your purpose is the most significant thing you will do in your life, and you, your loved ones, and the world will be better off because you went on this journey. 
~Mastin Kipp, author, entrepreneur, inspirational speaker

Inspiration in life is born when we have a purpose. 
~Daniel Longwe, author, teacher

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.
~The 14th Dalai Lama, author, b.7/6/1935

“If you don’t yet feel connected to your zone of genius… to that which lights you up from the inside out, don’t worry. Discovering your genius is more often a blossoming than a bursting.”
~LeAura Alderson, cofounder-iCreateDaily.com®

Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson, philosopher, writer, poet, 1803-1882

“To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.
~James Allen, British philosophical writer

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

You can always find the sun within yourself if you will only search.
~Maxwell Maltz,

Go find yourself first So you can also find me. 
~Rumi

Find out who you are and do it on purpose.
~Dolly Parton

“When you don’t know your purpose, make the journey your purpose.”
~LeAura Alderson, cofounder-iCreateDaily.com

“The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.”
~Henry Ford, entrepreneur, inventor, founder-Ford Motor Company, 1863-1947

Success is… knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential, and sowing seeds that benefit others.
~John C. Maxwell, American author, speaker, pastor

You can accept reality, or you can persist in your purpose until reality accepts you.
~Robert Brault, American operatic tenor

“Love is the purpose of creation. In creating, love becomes a verb. Love is revealed through action. Love is the purpose of our universe. To create is to align.”
~LeAura Alderson, cofounder-iCreateDaily.com

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, 1803-1882

If you have a purpose in which you can believe, there’s no end to the amount of things you can accomplish. 
~Marian Anderson, American singer

“Growth comes when we pull ourselves out of a negative cycle, into our next spiral of growth.”
~LeAura Alderson, cofounder-iCreateDaily.com

“Our passion is our strength.”
~Billie Joe Armstrong, actor, singer, songwriter, musician, born 2/17/1972

Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.
~Ella Fitzgerald, American jazz singer

“Progress leads to purpose. Pursuit of purpose leads to progress. So if you’re not yet sure of your purpose… head in that direction and purpose will reveal itself, increasingly, day by day.”
~LeAura Alderson, cofounder-iCreateDaily.com

Don’t be down if you’re confused. Use confusion to fuel your own personal revolution! Rebel against your resistance and embrace the adventure of personal exploration.
~LeAura Alderson, iCreateDaily.com

A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.
~John C. Maxwell, American author, speaker, pastor

True happiness… is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
~Helen Keller, American author, political activist, and lecturer

If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for.
~Thomas Merton, Trappist monk, writer, theologian, mystic, poet, 1915-1958

“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, Hungarian-American academic, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, 1920-2012

“Life is a journey from birth to death, and the living takes place in between. So to enjoy life, you must learn to enjoy the journey of each day, while keeping your sights on the horizon of your dreams.”
~LeAura Alderson, cofounder-iCreateDaily.com

A wind that blows aimlessly is no good to anyone.
~Rick Riordan, American author

“All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds.”
~ Richard Brautigan, novelist, poet, short stories

Finding your zone begins with awareness. And how do you develop greater awareness?
By zoning in more than zoning out and by creating more than consuming.
~LeAura Alderson, cofounder-iCreateDaily.com

“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, author

“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.”
~Henry David Thoreau

Life Purpose Quotes

Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.
~Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Renaissance polymath

“The man who is happy is fulfilling the purpose of existence.”
~Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist, writer, philosopher, 1821-1881

“When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way.”
~Wayne Dyer, self-help author, motivational speaker, 1940-2015

Winners are people with definite purpose in life.
~Denis Waitley, motivational speaker, author, consultant, born-1933

Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
~Viktor Frankl, neurologist, psychiatrist, author, Holocaust survivor, born-1905-1997

“The best place to invest your time and your money is to invest in yourself and your growth, both personally and professionally.”
~LeAura Alderson, cofounder-iCreateDaily.com

“Feel the frustration, because when you let it invade you, then you will have the energy to do something about it.”
~Tom Bilyeu, Entrepreneur, Impact Theory, Founder-Quest Nutrition

How to decide what to do each day? ASK:
Does this thing (activity, task, person, event…) support or detract from my goals?
~LeAura Alderson, cofounder-iCreateDaily.com

Your zone of genius is that place and space where you feel most alive with the passion of purpose.
~LeAura Alderson, cofounder-iCreateDaily.com

Destiny… Purpose… Calling… by whatever name, the concept is the same: our destiny, is to realize and achieve our next level of growth, and in that process, grow lighter, brighter, wiser and stronger… and to grow in love.
~LeAura Alderson, cofounder-iCreateDaily.com

The purpose of all life on earth is to grow.
~LeAura Alderson, iCreateDaily.com

When you’re doing work you love, you’re tapping into  zone of genius, is the place where your purpose resides, and purpose brings power.
~LeAura Alderson, cofounder-iCreateDaily.com

What do you love to do? What lights you up? There, lay clues to you.
~LeAura Alderson, cofounder-iCreateDaily.com

Like morning anywhere in the world, there are always those who are earlier risers, and those who come in late. But we all eventually wake up.
~LeAura Alderson, cofounder-iCreateDaily.com

Finding yourself is—above all—a process of creating yourself.
~LeAura Alderson, cofounder-iCreateDaily.com

Song of Aragorn

All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes, a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.

~poem by JRR Tolkien in The Lord of the Rings
aka, Riddle of Strider

Finding Meaning Through Creativity, Connection and Contribution

We find meaning through creativity. To create brings to light the life within. As we pull from our inner well of creativity and blend that with creating and sharing, that creation is amplified through connection.

We also find meaning through connection with others. In serving others from the heart, our heart and art are expanded, each influencing and enhancing the other.

When we care for another, as the parent for the child, it is the caring that fosters love. Same thing with our art and creativity. The creative act is also about caring… taking the time to create beauty and bring imagination to life.

Creativity it is a life amplifier.
~Chase Jarvis, Creative Calling

Crisis of Connection

For some, feeling lost is a crisis of meaning through loss of connection.

By Astrologer, Risa D’Angeles

Culture Warning—The War on Poverty has Failed

It seems poverty is more about a crisis of meaning. Faith family work neighborhoods community all fallen apart, yet these are the heart of the matter, the hope of our future.

Poverty, as a result of a breakdown and thus lack of culture through community, families, neighborhoods and faith. This destruction of these things has been ongoing for years… creating a war on faith, family, neighborhoods and community for more than three generations.

Faith, family neighborhoods and community are a basic human need. When we speak to the heart of the people, genuine human relationships are formed. People then have hope. Relationship has been taken out of our lives, splitting up families, no one at home with the children, no contact anymore (everyone on their phones & computers) = no human relationships.

Contact releases love.
~Risa D’Angeles, astrologer

We hope you enjoyed this article and quotes about finding yourself. We’d love to hear from you and what kind of creative endeavors your up to!

Now that you’re on this journey of finding yourself, this article on soul purpose may also help.

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