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)"
Quotations
Self - Discovery
There is a limit to how much you can change to be liked for who you really are.
-Robert Brault
There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.
-Carol Shields
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"
Those who are brutally honest are seldom so with themselves.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Second Neurotic's Notebook"
Man can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can starve from a lack of bread.
-Richard Wright
"Native Son"
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"
To the question of your life, you are the only answer. To the problems of your life, you are the only solution.
-Jo Coudert
There is deep wisdom within our very flesh, if we can only come to our senses and feel it.
-Elizabeth A. Behnke
We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Neurotic's Notebook"
