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.
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"
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
-Michelangelo
Better to start up a thousand wrong roads than to spend your life going nowhere because you know the way.
-Robert Brault
Those who are brutally honest are seldom so with themselves.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Second Neurotic's Notebook"
There is a limit to how much you can change to be liked for who you really are.
-Robert Brault
You might say that we use ourselves to discover ourselves.
-Judith Hanson Lasater
Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be.
-Robert Brault
In the end you don't so much find yourself as you find someone who knows who you are.
-Robert Brault
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
-Michel De Montaigne
