I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
-Michel De Montaigne
Quotations
Self - Discovery
We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Neurotic's Notebook"
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)"
You might say that we use ourselves to discover ourselves.
-Judith Hanson Lasater
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
-Nelson Mandela
No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
-Thomas Mann
Knowing who you are is the best defense against who they think you are.
-Dodinsky
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
-Anna Quindlen
If you aren't sure who you are, you might as well work on who you want to be.
-Robert Brault
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
-Jean De La Fontaine
