No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
-Thomas Mann
Quotations
Self - Discovery
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
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
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
-Michelangelo
Better to start up a thousand wrong roads than to spend your life going nowhere because you know the way.
-Robert Brault
Those who are brutally honest are seldom so with themselves.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Second Neurotic's Notebook"
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
Knowing who you are is the best defense against who they think you are.
-Dodinsky
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
