We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Neurotic's Notebook"
Quotations
Self - Discovery
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
-Anna Quindlen
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
-Michelangelo
No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
-Anonymous
Better to start up a thousand wrong roads than to spend your life going nowhere because you know the way.
-Robert Brault
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
-Michel De Montaigne
Those who are brutally honest are seldom so with themselves.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Second Neurotic's Notebook"
You might say that we use ourselves to discover ourselves.
-Judith Hanson Lasater
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"
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
-Ben Stein
