The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
-Ben Stein
Quotations
Self - Discovery
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
-Michel De Montaigne
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"
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
There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.
-Carol Shields
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
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"
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 is a limit to how much you can change to be liked for who you really are.
-Robert Brault
Truth hurts - not the searching after; the running from!
-John Eyberg
