Knowing who you are is the best defense against who they think you are.
-Dodinsky
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
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"
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
-Nelson Mandela
There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives.
-Josephine Hart
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
-Anna Quindlen
You might say that we use ourselves to discover ourselves.
-Judith Hanson Lasater
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"
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
-Alexis Carrel
Man can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can starve from a lack of bread.
-Richard Wright
"Native Son"
