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
No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
-Thomas Mann
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
-Ben Stein
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"
Those who are brutally honest are seldom so with themselves.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Second Neurotic's Notebook"
Better to start up a thousand wrong roads than to spend your life going nowhere because you know the way.
-Robert Brault
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)"
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 a limit to how much you can change to be liked for who you really are.
-Robert Brault
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
