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| People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates. ~ Thomas Szasz, "Personal Conduct," |
| You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself. ~ Alan Alda |
| Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be. ~ Robert Brault |
| Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor. ~ Dr. Alexis Carrel |
| The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart. ~ Julien Green |
| There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. ~ Anaïs Nin |
| The value of identity of course is that so often with it comes purpose. ~ Richard Grant |
| Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will find them gradually, without noticing it, and live along some distant day into the answer. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke, |
All men should strive
to learn before they die
what they are running from, and to, and why.
~ James Thurber |
| I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of. ~ Michel de Montaigne |
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| If you don’t get lost, there’s a chance you may never be found. ~ Author Unknown |
| I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. ~ Henry David Thoreau |
| A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. ~ George Moore |
| It is good to feel lost… because it proves you have a navigational sense of where "Home" is. You know that a place that feels like being found exists. And maybe your current location isn’t that place but, Hallelujah, that unsettled, uneasy feeling of lost-ness just brought you closer to it. ~ Erika Harris |
| If in the last few years you haven’t discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead. ~ Gelett Burgess |
| Endurance is frequently a form of indecision. ~ Elizabeth Bibesco, |
| Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, he wants to reestablish them. Ignorance irritates him and knowledge cloys. ~ Amiel, |
| The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. ~ Muhammad Ali |
| Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. ~ Wallace Stevens |
| One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. ~ G.K. Chesterton, "The Logic of Elfland," |
| If you resist reading what you disagree with, how will you ever acquire deeper insights into what you believe? The things most worth reading are precisely those that challenge our convictions. ~ Author Unknown |
| It is only when we silent the blaring sounds of our daily existence that we can finally hear the whispers of truth that life reveals to us, as it stands knocking on the doorsteps of our hearts. ~ K.T. Jong |
| I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself. ~ James Baldwin |
| There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud. ~ Carol Shields |
| To the question of your life you are the answer, and to the problems of your life you are the solution. ~ Joe Cordare |
| Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves. ~ Henry David Thoreau |
| No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, |
| In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own. ~ Alice Walker |
| Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself. ~ William Butler Yeats |
| If you haven’t had at least a slight poetic crack in the heart, you have been cheated by nature. ~ Phyllis Battelle |