It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. – H.W. Shaw
For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipators. – Logan Pearsall Smith
All your life you pretend to be someone else, and it turns out that you were someone else pretending to be you. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
My own experience is that everybody is born with a certain talent, and unless he lives that talent to its fullest, something in him will remain missing. He will go on feeling that somehow something is not there that should be. – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven’t been born yet. – Neil Simon
You will never come up against a greater adversary than your own potential, my young friend. – Michael Piller and Michael Wagner, Star Trek: The Next Generation, “Evolution,”
Yes, I worry that somebody will discover the truth about me — and not tell me what it is. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Real birthdays are not annual affairs. Real birthdays are the days when we have a new birth. – Ralph Parlette
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier. – Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another. – Arthur Christopher Benson
Like an old gold-panning prospector, you must resign yourself to digging up a lot of sand from which you will later patiently wash out a few minute particles of gold ore. – Dorothy Bryant
Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile. – Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance, 1893
Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves. – Robert Neelly Bellah, Habits of the Heart, 1985
The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live. – Nicolas Chamfort
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
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms. – George Eliot
Man can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as… from a lack of bread. – Richard Wright, Native Son, 1940
The truth is that it is natural, as well as necessary, for every man to be a vagabond occasionally. – Samuel H. Hammond
