No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
-Thomas Mann
No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
-Thomas Mann
In the end you don't so much find yourself as you find someone who knows who you are.
-Robert Brault
If you aren't sure who you are, you might as well work on who you want to be.
-Robert Brault
Those who are brutally honest are seldom so with themselves.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Second Neurotic's Notebook"
And if you find everything as soon as you look for it, you find it in vain; you look for it in vain.
-Antonio Porchia
"Voces (Voices)"
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"
Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be.
-Robert Brault
You might say that we use ourselves to discover ourselves.
-Judith Hanson Lasater
There is a limit to how much you can change to be liked for who you really are.
-Robert Brault