The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
-Anna Quindlen
Quotations
Self - Discovery
About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.
-Thomas Albert “Tom” Wilson
If you have known yourself, you have known everything else. Know that, by knowing which, you will know everything else. The Bible says, “Seek that kingdom within you.” Once you have found that, then everything else will be automatically added unto you; you don’t have to go looking for things outside; they will all come to you.
-Satchidananda Saraswati "Swami Satchidananda"
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
-Jean De La Fontaine
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
-Michel De Montaigne
To the question of your life, you are the only answer. To the problems of your life, you are the only solution.
-Jo Coudert
We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Neurotic's Notebook"
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
-Nelson Mandela
I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.
-Mark Twain
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
-Alexis Carrel
