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)"
Quotations
Self - Discovery
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
-Michel De Montaigne
Knowing who you are is the best defense against who they think you are.
-Dodinsky
You might say that we use ourselves to discover ourselves.
-Judith Hanson Lasater
Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be.
-Robert Brault
We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Neurotic's Notebook"
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
No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
-Thomas Mann
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
There is a limit to how much you can change to be liked for who you really are.
-Robert Brault
