No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
-Thomas Mann
Quotations
Self - Discovery
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
-Alexis Carrel
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
-Jean De La Fontaine
About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.
-Thomas Albert “Tom” Wilson
We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Neurotic's Notebook"
If you aren't sure who you are, you might as well work on who you want to be.
-Robert Brault
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)"
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"
There is deep wisdom within our very flesh, if we can only come to our senses and feel it.
-Elizabeth A. Behnke
