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
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"
If you aren't sure who you are, you might as well work on who you want to be.
-Robert Brault
We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Neurotic's Notebook"
Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be.
-Robert Brault
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
-Jean De La Fontaine
There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.
-Carol Shields
Those who are brutally honest are seldom so with themselves.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Second Neurotic's Notebook"
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
-Anna Quindlen
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
-George Moore
