A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
-Jean De La Fontaine
Quotations
Self - Discovery
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"
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
About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.
-Thomas Albert “Tom” Wilson
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"
Knowing who you are is the best defense against who they think you are.
-Dodinsky
There is a limit to how much you can change to be liked for who you really are.
-Robert Brault
You might say that we use ourselves to discover ourselves.
-Judith Hanson Lasater
There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.
-Carol Shields
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
-Ben Stein
