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
Knowing who you are is the best defense against who they think you are.
-Dodinsky
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"
Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be.
-Robert Brault
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
-Michelangelo
Those who are brutally honest are seldom so with themselves.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Second Neurotic's Notebook"
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
-George Moore
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
-Michel De Montaigne
The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.
-Richard Bach
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"
