No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
-Thomas Mann
Quotations
Self - Discovery
In the end you don't so much find yourself as you find someone who knows who you are.
-Robert Brault
You necessarily have to be lost, before you’re found.
-T. Scott McLeod
"All That Is Unspoken"
There is a limit to how much you can change to be liked for who you really are.
-Robert Brault
We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Neurotic's Notebook"
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"
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"
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
-Jean De La Fontaine
You might say that we use ourselves to discover ourselves.
-Judith Hanson Lasater
