A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
-Jean De La Fontaine
Quotations
Self - Discovery
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
-Michel De Montaigne
There is deep wisdom within our very flesh, if we can only come to our senses and feel it.
-Elizabeth A. Behnke
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
There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.
-Carol Shields
Those who are brutally honest are seldom so with themselves.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Second Neurotic's Notebook"
If you aren't sure who you are, you might as well work on who you want 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
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
-Alexis Carrel
You might say that we use ourselves to discover ourselves.
-Judith Hanson Lasater
