Everyone loses themselves at times on their journey through life. It’s normal, and through these quotes, I hope that you can find yourself once again and continue forging a path ahead, this time stronger and wiser.
Best Quotes on Losing Yourself
1. The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
2. “When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world.
3. Don’t lose yourself trying to be everything to everyone.
4. It is never too late to be what you might have been.
5. You are special too, don’t lose yourself.
6. And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
7. I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
8. 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.
9. The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
10. A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.
11. Once you don’t have freedom and you’re obliged to do many things you don’t want, and it becomes a routine, then your identity is at stake because you can feel that you are not anymore yourself, that you are what they want you to be – and you can lose yourself.
12. You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
13. Once you lose yourself, you have two choices: find the person you used to be, or lose that person completely.
14. Just because you’re breathing, doesn’t mean you’re alive.
15. Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
16. 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.
17. If you realize what the real problem is – losing yourself – you realize that this itself is the ultimate trial.
18. Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
19. Lose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find.
20. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave likefree spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.
21. The only journey is the journey within.
22. It is one thing to lose people you love. It is another to lose yourself. That is a greater loss.
23. We lose ourselves in things we love. We find ourselves there, too.
24. Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
25. Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it’s dark.
26. It’s a life’s journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.
27. I have always considered myself a free spirit with a Gypsy soul. Surrendering to where ever life takes me.
28. Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself to become a new person.