No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
-Anonymous
No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
-Anonymous
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
-Anna Quindlen
Man can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can starve from a lack of bread.
-Richard Wright
"Native Son"
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"
Truth hurts - not the searching after; the running from!
-John Eyberg
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)"
You necessarily have to be lost, before you’re found.
-T. Scott McLeod
"All That Is Unspoken"
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
There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.
-Carol Shields
There is a limit to how much you can change to be liked for who you really are.
-Robert Brault