I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
-Michel De Montaigne
Quotations
Self - Discovery
In the end you don't so much find yourself as you find someone who knows who you are.
-Robert Brault
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
Truth hurts - not the searching after; the running from!
-John Eyberg
About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.
-Thomas Albert “Tom” Wilson
There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives.
-Josephine Hart
We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Neurotic's Notebook"
Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
-Barbara Kingsolver
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"
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
-Michelangelo
