I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
-Michel De Montaigne
Quotations
Self - Discovery
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)"
There is a limit to how much you can change to be liked for who you really are.
-Robert Brault
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
-Alexis Carrel
Those who are brutally honest are seldom so with themselves.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Second Neurotic's Notebook"
There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives.
-Josephine Hart
No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
-Thomas Mann
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"
The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.
-Richard Bach
There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.
-Carol Shields
