I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
-Michel De Montaigne
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"
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
-Jean De La Fontaine
The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.
-Richard Bach
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
-George Moore
We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Neurotic's Notebook"
You necessarily have to be lost, before you’re found.
-T. Scott McLeod
"All That Is Unspoken"
Man can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can starve from a lack of bread.
-Richard Wright
"Native Son"
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
-Nelson Mandela
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"
