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Alan Alda
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 Ball, American Beauty, 1999
It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself. Makes you wonder what else you can do that you've forgotten about.
Alan Watts
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
Alice Walker
In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
Amiel, Journal, 1884
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.
Ana?s Nin
There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Ana?s Nin
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
Andr? Gide
In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of persons, and of oneself.
Andr? Gide, Nouvelles Nourritures
Know thyself - a maxim as pernicious as it is odious. A person observing himself would arrest his own development. Any caterpillar who tried to know himself would never become a butterfly.
Andr? Maurois
The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.
Antoine de Saint-Exup?ry, Flight to Arras, 1942, translated from French by Lewis Galanti?re
No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.
Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
And if you find everything as soon as you look for it, you find it in vain, you look for it in vain.
Arthur Christopher Benson
Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.
Author Unknown
If you don't get lost, there's a chance you may never be found.
Author Unknown
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
Every one of us has in him a continent of undiscovered character. Blessed is he who acts the Columbus to his own soul.
Author Unknown
We run away all the time to avoid coming face to face with ourselves.
Author Unknown
God hides things by putting them all around us.
Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
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, Animal Dreams
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
 
 
 
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