No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
-Thomas Mann
Quotations
Self - Discovery
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
There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.
-Carol Shields
In order to find yourself you need to get lost in the forest of life.
-Mike Dolan
There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives.
-Josephine Hart
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
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
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
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"
We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Neurotic's Notebook"
