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
Quotations
Self - Discovery
Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
-Barbara Kingsolver
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
-Michelangelo
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"
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"
Those who are brutally honest are seldom so with themselves.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Second Neurotic's Notebook"
There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.
-Carol Shields
In order to find yourself you need to get lost in the forest of life.
-Mike Dolan
You might say that we use ourselves to discover ourselves.
-Judith Hanson Lasater
No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
-Thomas Mann
