No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
-Anonymous
Quotations
Self - Discovery
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
-Nelson Mandela
If you aren't sure who you are, you might as well work on who you want to be.
-Robert Brault
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
-Alexis Carrel
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"
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"
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
-Michelangelo
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"
In order to find yourself you need to get lost in the forest of life.
-Mike Dolan
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
-Michel De Montaigne
