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
We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Neurotic's Notebook"
There is a limit to how much you can change to be liked for who you really are.
-Robert Brault
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
-Jean De La Fontaine
You necessarily have to be lost, before you’re found.
-T. Scott McLeod
"All That Is Unspoken"
There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.
-Carol Shields
There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives.
-Josephine Hart
You might say that we use ourselves to discover ourselves.
-Judith Hanson Lasater
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
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
