We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Neurotic's Notebook"
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"
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
If you have known yourself, you have known everything else. Know that, by knowing which, you will know everything else. The Bible says, “Seek that kingdom within you.” Once you have found that, then everything else will be automatically added unto you; you don’t have to go looking for things outside; they will all come to you.
-Satchidananda Saraswati "Swami Satchidananda"
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"
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
-Jean De La Fontaine
There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives.
-Josephine Hart
Man can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can starve from a lack of bread.
-Richard Wright
"Native Son"
No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
-Thomas Mann
Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be.
-Robert Brault
