A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
-Jean De La Fontaine
Quotations
Self - Discovery
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
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 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"
You might say that we use ourselves to discover ourselves.
-Judith Hanson Lasater
If you don't get lost, there's a chance you may never be found.
-Anonymous
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)"
In order to find yourself you need to get lost in the forest of life.
-Mike Dolan
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
-Ben Stein
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"
