Man can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can starve from a lack of bread.
-Richard Wright
"Native Son"
Quotations
Self - Discovery
If you aren't sure who you are, you might as well work on who you want to be.
-Robert Brault
Knowing who you are is the best defense against who they think you are.
-Dodinsky
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)"
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"
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
-Anna Quindlen
There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.
-Carol Shields
To the question of your life, you are the only answer. To the problems of your life, you are the only solution.
-Jo Coudert
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
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
-Ben Stein
