The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
-Ben Stein
Quotations
Self - Discovery
Those who are brutally honest are seldom so with themselves.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Second Neurotic's Notebook"
There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.
-Carol Shields
You might say that we use ourselves to discover ourselves.
-Judith Hanson Lasater
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"
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
-Michel De Montaigne
We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Neurotic's Notebook"
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
-Anna Quindlen
Knowing who you are is the best defense against who they think you are.
-Dodinsky
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
