We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Neurotic's Notebook"
Quotations
Self - Discovery
Knowing who you are is the best defense against who they think you are.
-Dodinsky
If you aren't sure who you are, you might as well work on who you want to be.
-Robert Brault
Man can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can starve from a lack of bread.
-Richard Wright
"Native Son"
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"
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)"
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
-Michel De Montaigne
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
-Jean De La Fontaine
No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
-Anonymous
Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be.
-Robert Brault
