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
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
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"
No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
-Anonymous
There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.
-Carol Shields
There is deep wisdom within our very flesh, if we can only come to our senses and feel it.
-Elizabeth A. Behnke
Knowing who you are is the best defense against who they think you are.
-Dodinsky
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
-Michelangelo
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
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
-Jean De La Fontaine
