The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
-Anna Quindlen
Quotations
Self - Discovery
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"
There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives.
-Josephine Hart
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
-Nelson Mandela
If you have known yourself, you have known everything else. Know that, by knowing which, you will know everything else. The Bible says, “Seek that kingdom within you.” Once you have found that, then everything else will be automatically added unto you; you don’t have to go looking for things outside; they will all come to you.
-Satchidananda Saraswati "Swami Satchidananda"
You might say that we use ourselves to discover ourselves.
-Judith Hanson Lasater
If you aren't sure who you are, you might as well work on who you want to be.
-Robert Brault
No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
-Thomas Mann
In the end you don't so much find yourself as you find someone who knows who you are.
-Robert Brault
There is deep wisdom within our very flesh, if we can only come to our senses and feel it.
-Elizabeth A. Behnke
