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 Stephen Szasz
Quotations
Self - Discovery
To the question of your life, you are the only answer. To the problems of your life, you are the only solution.
-Jo Coudert
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"
I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.
-Mark Twain
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
-Alexis Carrel
Truth hurts - not the searching after; the running from!
-John Eyberg
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"
You necessarily have to be lost, before you’re found.
-T. Scott McLeod
"All That Is Unspoken"
Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason, not that you have no reason for living.
-Tom O'connor
No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
-Thomas Mann
