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
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
-Jean De La Fontaine
Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
-Barbara Kingsolver
Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason, not that you have no reason for living.
-Tom O'connor
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
-Michel De Montaigne
There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives.
-Josephine Hart
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"
You might say that we use ourselves to discover ourselves.
-Judith Hanson Lasater
And if you find everything as soon as you look for it, you find it in vain; you look for it in vain.
-Antonio Porchia
"Voces (Voices)"
Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be.
-Robert Brault
