About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.
-Thomas Albert “Tom” Wilson
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"
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
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)"
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"
But there are other things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
"Notes from the Underground"
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
No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
-Thomas Mann
If you aren't sure who you are, you might as well work on who you want to be.
-Robert Brault
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
-Michelangelo
