No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
-Thomas Mann
Quotations
Self - Discovery
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
-Ben Stein
Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason, not that you have no reason for living.
-Tom O'connor
To the question of your life, you are the only answer. To the problems of your life, you are the only solution.
-Jo Coudert
By self-study, by observing, by being hollow and empty, you become a channel - you become a part of the Divine. You are able to feel the presence of Divinity. All the different angels and devas, all these different forms of our consciousness, start blossoming.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar "Sri Sri Ravi Shankar"
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"
In the end you don't so much find yourself as you find someone who knows who you are.
-Robert Brault
You necessarily have to be lost, before you’re found.
-T. Scott McLeod
"All That Is Unspoken"
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
-Jean De La Fontaine
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
