I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
-Michel De Montaigne
Quotations
Self - Discovery
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
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"
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)"
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
-Michelangelo
There is a limit to how much you can change to be liked for who you really are.
-Robert Brault
You might say that we use ourselves to discover ourselves.
-Judith Hanson Lasater
Man can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can starve from a lack of bread.
-Richard Wright
"Native Son"
About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.
-Thomas Albert “Tom” Wilson
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
-Alexis Carrel
