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
There is deep wisdom within our very flesh, if we can only come to our senses and feel it.
-Elizabeth A. Behnke
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"
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
-Ben Stein
A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
"Flight to Arras"
There is a limit to how much you can change to be liked for who you really are.
-Robert Brault
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
-Michel De Montaigne
There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives.
-Josephine Hart
No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
-Anonymous
We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Neurotic's Notebook"
