I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
-Michel De Montaigne
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"
There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.
-Carol Shields
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
By self-study, by observing, by being hollow and empty, you become a channel - you become a part of the Divine. You are able to feel the presence of Divinity. All the different angels and devas, all these different forms of our consciousness, start blossoming.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar "Sri Sri Ravi Shankar"
In the end you don't so much find yourself as you find someone who knows who you are.
-Robert Brault
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
-George Moore
Knowing who you are is the best defense against who they think you are.
-Dodinsky
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
-Jean De La Fontaine
Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
-Barbara Kingsolver
