A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
-Jean De La Fontaine
Quotations
Self - Discovery
The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.
-Richard Bach
There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.
-Carol Shields
Knowing who you are is the best defense against who they think you are.
-Dodinsky
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
-Anna Quindlen
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
-Ben Stein
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
-Nelson Mandela
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"
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
-Michel De Montaigne
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
-Michelangelo
