Better to start up a thousand wrong roads than to spend your life going nowhere because you know the way.
-Robert Brault
Quotations
Self - Discovery
No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
-Thomas Mann
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
-Ben Stein
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"
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
There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.
-Carol Shields
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"
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"
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
