You might say that we use ourselves to discover ourselves.
-Judith Hanson Lasater
In the end you don't so much find yourself as you find someone who knows who you are.
-Robert Brault
A legislator must know how to take advantage of even the defects of those he wants to govern.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
-Guillaume Apollinaire
Happiness is not the absence of problems. It’s the ability to deal with them.
-Steve Maraboli
Just don’t seek from another or you’ll be far estranged from Self. I now go on alone meeting it everywhere, it now is just what I am; I now am not it. You must comprehend in this way to merge with thus-ness.