The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
-Anna Quindlen
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"
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"
In order to find yourself you need to get lost in the forest of life.
-Mike Dolan
There is deep wisdom within our very flesh, if we can only come to our senses and feel it.
-Elizabeth A. Behnke
Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be.
-Robert Brault
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
-Michel De Montaigne
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
-Michelangelo
Knowing who you are is the best defense against who they think you are.
-Dodinsky
If you aren't sure who you are, you might as well work on who you want to be.
-Robert Brault
