No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
-Thomas Mann
Quotations
Self - Discovery
You might say that we use ourselves to discover ourselves.
-Judith Hanson Lasater
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"
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
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)"
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
-Ben Stein
If you have known yourself, you have known everything else. Know that, by knowing which, you will know everything else. The Bible says, “Seek that kingdom within you.” Once you have found that, then everything else will be automatically added unto you; you don’t have to go looking for things outside; they will all come to you.
-Satchidananda Saraswati "Swami Satchidananda"
In order to find yourself you need to get lost in the forest of life.
-Mike Dolan
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
-George Moore
Better to start up a thousand wrong roads than to spend your life going nowhere because you know the way.
-Robert Brault
