Man can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can starve from a lack of bread.
-Richard Wright
"Native Son"
Quotations
Self - Discovery
Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be.
-Robert Brault
If you have known yourself, you have known everything else. Know that, by knowing which, you will know everything else. The Bible says, “Seek that kingdom within you.” Once you have found that, then everything else will be automatically added unto you; you don’t have to go looking for things outside; they will all come to you.
-Satchidananda Saraswati "Swami Satchidananda"
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
-George Moore
To the question of your life, you are the only answer. To the problems of your life, you are the only solution.
-Jo Coudert
There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.
-Carol Shields
You might say that we use ourselves to discover ourselves.
-Judith Hanson Lasater
I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.
-Mark Twain
You necessarily have to be lost, before you’re found.
-T. Scott McLeod
"All That Is Unspoken"
But there are other things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
"Notes from the Underground"
