A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
-Jean De La Fontaine
Quotations
Self - Discovery
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 is a limit to how much you can change to be liked for who you really are.
-Robert Brault
Better to start up a thousand wrong roads than to spend your life going nowhere because you know the way.
-Robert Brault
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
-Michelangelo
Man can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can starve from a lack of bread.
-Richard Wright
"Native Son"
You necessarily have to be lost, before you’re found.
-T. Scott McLeod
"All That Is Unspoken"
By self-study, by observing, by being hollow and empty, you become a channel - you become a part of the Divine. You are able to feel the presence of Divinity. All the different angels and devas, all these different forms of our consciousness, start blossoming.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar "Sri Sri Ravi Shankar"
In the end you don't so much find yourself as you find someone who knows who you are.
-Robert Brault
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
-Michel De Montaigne
