A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
-Jean De La Fontaine
Quotations
Self - Discovery
Man can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can starve from a lack of bread.
-Richard Wright
"Native Son"
You might say that we use ourselves to discover ourselves.
-Judith Hanson Lasater
No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
-Anonymous
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"
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
No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
-Thomas Mann
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)"
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
-Michel De Montaigne
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
-Alexis Carrel
