No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
-Thomas Mann
Quotations
Self - Discovery
About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.
-Thomas Albert “Tom” Wilson
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
-Michel De Montaigne
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
-Jean De La Fontaine
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
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
-Anna Quindlen
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
But there are other things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
"Notes from the Underground"
Those who are brutally honest are seldom so with themselves.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Second Neurotic's Notebook"
You might say that we use ourselves to discover ourselves.
-Judith Hanson Lasater
