A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
-Jean De La Fontaine
Quotations
Self - Discovery
Man can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can starve from a lack of bread.
-Richard Wright
"Native Son"
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"
You might say that we use ourselves to discover ourselves.
-Judith Hanson Lasater
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
-George Moore
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"
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"
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
If you don't get lost, there's a chance you may never be found.
-Anonymous
Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be.
-Robert Brault
