I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
-Michel De Montaigne
Quotations
Self - Discovery
Knowing who you are is the best defense against who they think you are.
-Dodinsky
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
-Ben Stein
To the question of your life, you are the only answer. To the problems of your life, you are the only solution.
-Jo Coudert
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
The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.
-Richard Bach
About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.
-Thomas Albert “Tom” Wilson
Man can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can starve from a lack of bread.
-Richard Wright
"Native Son"
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
-Nelson Mandela
In the end you don't so much find yourself as you find someone who knows who you are.
-Robert Brault
