We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Neurotic's Notebook"
We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Neurotic's Notebook"
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
-Ben Stein
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
-Michel De Montaigne
Those who are brutally honest are seldom so with themselves.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Second Neurotic's Notebook"
You might say that we use ourselves to discover ourselves.
-Judith Hanson Lasater
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
-Jean De La Fontaine
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
Man can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can starve from a lack of bread.
-Richard Wright
"Native Son"
Knowing who you are is the best defense against who they think you are.
-Dodinsky
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