There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

Carl Jung

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

Epictetus

What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow. Our life is the creation of our mind.

Buddha

Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.

Thomas Paine

Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.

Kahlil Gibran

An artist is a sort of emotional or spiritual historian. His role is to make you realize the doom and glory of knowing who you are and what you are.

James Baldwin