No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
-Thomas Mann
Quotations
Self - Discovery
I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.
-Mark Twain
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
-George Moore
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
-Alexis Carrel
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"
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)"
There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.
-Carol Shields
There is a limit to how much you can change to be liked for who you really are.
-Robert Brault
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
