A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
-Jean De La Fontaine
Quotations
Self - Discovery
There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.
-Carol Shields
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
-Anna Quindlen
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
-Michel De Montaigne
Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be.
-Robert Brault
You might say that we use ourselves to discover ourselves.
-Judith Hanson Lasater
Those who are brutally honest are seldom so with themselves.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Second Neurotic's Notebook"
There is a limit to how much you can change to be liked for who you really are.
-Robert Brault
I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.
-Mark Twain
We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Neurotic's Notebook"
