I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
-Michel De Montaigne
Quotations
Self - Discovery
In order to find yourself you need to get lost in the forest of life.
-Mike Dolan
If you don't get lost, there's a chance you may never be found.
-Anonymous
Knowing who you are is the best defense against who they think you are.
-Dodinsky
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
-Nelson Mandela
You might say that we use ourselves to discover ourselves.
-Judith Hanson Lasater
Man can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can starve from a lack of bread.
-Richard Wright
"Native Son"
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"
We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Neurotic's Notebook"
