A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
-Jean De La Fontaine
Quotations
Self - Discovery
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
-Anna Quindlen
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)"
You might say that we use ourselves to discover ourselves.
-Judith Hanson Lasater
We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Neurotic's Notebook"
There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.
-Carol Shields
In the end you don't so much find yourself as you find someone who knows who you are.
-Robert Brault
You necessarily have to be lost, before you’re found.
-T. Scott McLeod
"All That Is Unspoken"
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
-George Moore
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"
