No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
-Anonymous
Quotations
Self - Discovery
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
-Alexis Carrel
If you have known yourself, you have known everything else. Know that, by knowing which, you will know everything else. The Bible says, “Seek that kingdom within you.” Once you have found that, then everything else will be automatically added unto you; you don’t have to go looking for things outside; they will all come to you.
-Satchidananda Saraswati "Swami Satchidananda"
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
-Jean De La Fontaine
Those who are brutally honest are seldom so with themselves.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Second Neurotic's Notebook"
There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.
-Carol Shields
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
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
-George Moore
And if you find everything as soon as you look for it, you find it in vain; you look for it in vain.
-Antonio Porchia
"Voces (Voices)"
If you aren't sure who you are, you might as well work on who you want to be.
-Robert Brault
