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
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
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"
There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives.
-Josephine Hart
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
-Alexis Carrel
There is a limit to how much you can change to be liked for who you really 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"
In order to find yourself you need to get lost in the forest of life.
-Mike Dolan
The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.
-Richard Bach
Better to start up a thousand wrong roads than to spend your life going nowhere because you know the way.
-Robert Brault
