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)"
Quotations
Self - Discovery
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
-Jean De La Fontaine
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
Better to start up a thousand wrong roads than to spend your life going nowhere because you know the way.
-Robert Brault
Knowing who you are is the best defense against who they think you are.
-Dodinsky
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
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
-Michel De Montaigne
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"
