A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
-Jean De La Fontaine
Quotations
Self - Discovery
About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.
-Thomas Albert “Tom” Wilson
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
-Nelson Mandela
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
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"
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)"
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
-George Moore
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
-Anna Quindlen
In the end you don't so much find yourself as you find someone who knows who you are.
-Robert Brault
We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Neurotic's Notebook"
