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
Quotations
Self - Discovery
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
Man can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can starve from a lack of bread.
-Richard Wright
"Native Son"
To the question of your life, you are the only answer. To the problems of your life, you are the only solution.
-Jo Coudert
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
-Alexis Carrel
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"
Knowing who you are is the best defense against who they think you are.
-Dodinsky
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
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
-Michel De Montaigne
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
-Ben Stein
