We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Neurotic's Notebook"
Quotations
Self - Discovery
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
-Jean De La Fontaine
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"
If you aren't sure who you are, you might as well work on who you want to be.
-Robert Brault
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
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"
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
-Alexis Carrel
There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.
-Carol Shields
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
-Nelson Mandela
