I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
-Michel De Montaigne
Quotations
Self - Discovery
Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
-Barbara Kingsolver
Knowing who you are is the best defense against who they think you are.
-Dodinsky
You necessarily have to be lost, before you’re found.
-T. Scott McLeod
"All That Is Unspoken"
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
-Michelangelo
Those who are brutally honest are seldom so with themselves.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Second Neurotic's Notebook"
If you aren't sure who you are, you might as well work on who you want to be.
-Robert Brault
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
-Ben Stein
No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
-Thomas Mann
In the end you don't so much find yourself as you find someone who knows who you are.
-Robert Brault
