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
Quotations
Self - Discovery
No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
-Thomas Mann
There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives.
-Josephine Hart
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
-Anna Quindlen
But there are other things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
"Notes from the Underground"
To the question of your life, you are the only answer. To the problems of your life, you are the only solution.
-Jo Coudert
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
-Nelson Mandela
You might say that we use ourselves to discover ourselves.
-Judith Hanson Lasater
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
Those who are brutally honest are seldom so with themselves.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Second Neurotic's Notebook"
