We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Neurotic's Notebook"
Quotations
Self - Discovery
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
Knowing who you are is the best defense against who they think you are.
-Dodinsky
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
-Alexis Carrel
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"
Truth hurts - not the searching after; the running from!
-John Eyberg
I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.
-Mark Twain
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"
There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.
-Carol Shields
No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
-Anonymous
