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)"
Quotations
Self - Discovery
In order to find yourself you need to get lost in the forest of life.
-Mike Dolan
Better to start up a thousand wrong roads than to spend your life going nowhere because you know the way.
-Robert Brault
Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be.
-Robert Brault
In the end you don't so much find yourself as you find someone who knows who you are.
-Robert Brault
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"
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
-George Moore
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 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"
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
-Anna Quindlen
