There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.
-Carol Shields
Quotations
Self - Discovery
Those who are brutally honest are seldom so with themselves.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Second Neurotic's Notebook"
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
-Ben Stein
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
-Alexis Carrel
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"
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"
No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
-Anonymous
No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
-Thomas Mann
Man can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can starve from a lack of bread.
-Richard Wright
"Native Son"
Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
-Barbara Kingsolver
