A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
-Jean De La Fontaine
Quotations
Self - Discovery
No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
-Thomas Mann
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
-Anna Quindlen
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
You might say that we use ourselves to discover ourselves.
-Judith Hanson Lasater
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
-Michel De Montaigne
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"
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
-Nelson Mandela
In order to find yourself you need to get lost in the forest of life.
-Mike Dolan
There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives.
-Josephine Hart
