A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
-Jean De La Fontaine
Quotations
Self - Discovery
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
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
Man can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can starve from a lack of bread.
-Richard Wright
"Native Son"
Better to start up a thousand wrong roads than to spend your life going nowhere because you know the way.
-Robert Brault
You necessarily have to be lost, before you’re found.
-T. Scott McLeod
"All That Is Unspoken"
In order to find yourself you need to get lost in the forest of life.
-Mike Dolan
There is a limit to how much you can change to be liked for who you really are.
-Robert Brault
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"
