I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
-Michel De Montaigne
Quotations
Self - Discovery
Man can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can starve from a lack of bread.
-Richard Wright
"Native Son"
We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Neurotic's Notebook"
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)"
In order to find yourself you need to get lost in the forest of life.
-Mike Dolan
To the question of your life, you are the only answer. To the problems of your life, you are the only solution.
-Jo Coudert
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
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
-Anna Quindlen
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
