I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
-Michel De Montaigne
Quotations
Self - Discovery
There is a limit to how much you can change to be liked for who you really are.
-Robert Brault
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"
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
-George Moore
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
A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
"Flight to Arras"
No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
-Thomas Mann
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 Stephen Szasz
By self-study, by observing, by being hollow and empty, you become a channel - you become a part of the Divine. You are able to feel the presence of Divinity. All the different angels and devas, all these different forms of our consciousness, start blossoming.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar "Sri Sri Ravi Shankar"
Better to start up a thousand wrong roads than to spend your life going nowhere because you know the way.
-Robert Brault
