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
Quotations
Self - Discovery
Truth hurts - not the searching after; the running from!
-John Eyberg
Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be.
-Robert Brault
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
-Ben Stein
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"
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
-Jean De La Fontaine
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"
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
-Michel De Montaigne
No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
-Thomas Mann
We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Neurotic's Notebook"
