A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
"Flight to Arras"
Quotations
Self - Discovery
Man can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can starve from a lack of bread.
-Richard Wright
"Native Son"
There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives.
-Josephine Hart
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)"
About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.
-Thomas Albert “Tom” Wilson
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"
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
-Anna Quindlen
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
-Jean De La Fontaine
You necessarily have to be lost, before you’re found.
-T. Scott McLeod
"All That Is Unspoken"
