A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
-Jean De La Fontaine
Quotations
Self - Discovery
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
-Michelangelo
There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives.
-Josephine Hart
In order to find yourself you need to get lost in the forest of life.
-Mike Dolan
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
-Nelson Mandela
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
-Anna Quindlen
You might say that we use ourselves to discover ourselves.
-Judith Hanson Lasater
Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
-Barbara Kingsolver
We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Neurotic's Notebook"
There is deep wisdom within our very flesh, if we can only come to our senses and feel it.
-Elizabeth A. Behnke
