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
Quotations
Self - Discovery
To the question of your life, you are the only answer. To the problems of your life, you are the only solution.
-Jo Coudert
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
-Alexis Carrel
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)"
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
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"
You necessarily have to be lost, before you’re found.
-T. Scott McLeod
"All That Is Unspoken"
Man can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can starve from a lack of bread.
-Richard Wright
"Native Son"
No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
-Anonymous
