We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Neurotic's Notebook"
Quotations
Self - Discovery
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"
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
No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
-Thomas Mann
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 is deep wisdom within our very flesh, if we can only come to our senses and feel it.
-Elizabeth A. Behnke
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
-Ben Stein
Those who are brutally honest are seldom so with themselves.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Second Neurotic's Notebook"
There is a limit to how much you can change to be liked for who you really are.
-Robert Brault
Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be.
-Robert Brault
