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.
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
-Michelangelo
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
-Jean De La Fontaine
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
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"
In the end you don't so much find yourself as you find someone who knows who you are.
-Robert Brault
In order to find yourself you need to get lost in the forest of life.
-Mike Dolan
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
-Ben Stein
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
