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
Truth hurts - not the searching after; the running from!
-John Eyberg
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
-Ben Stein
No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
-Thomas Mann
There is a limit to how much you can change to be liked for who you really are.
-Robert Brault
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"
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
-Michelangelo
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)"
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"
We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Neurotic's Notebook"
