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
You necessarily have to be lost, before you’re found.
-T. Scott McLeod
"All That Is Unspoken"
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
If you aren't sure who you are, you might as well work on who you want to be.
-Robert Brault
There is deep wisdom within our very flesh, if we can only come to our senses and feel it.
-Elizabeth A. Behnke
There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives.
-Josephine Hart
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 are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.
-Carol Shields
People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.
-Thomas Stephen Szasz
Better to start up a thousand wrong roads than to spend your life going nowhere because you know the way.
-Robert Brault
