There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
-Nelson Mandela
Quotations
Self - Discovery
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
-Alexis Carrel
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
-Michelangelo
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"
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
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"
Truth hurts - not the searching after; the running from!
-John Eyberg
In the end you don't so much find yourself as you find someone who knows who you are.
-Robert Brault
There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.
-Carol Shields
Man can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can starve from a lack of bread.
-Richard Wright
"Native Son"
