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"
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"
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
-Alexis Carrel
Man can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can starve from a lack of bread.
-Richard Wright
"Native Son"
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"
There is deep wisdom within our very flesh, if we can only come to our senses and feel it.
-Elizabeth A. Behnke
In the end you don't so much find yourself as you find someone who knows who you are.
-Robert Brault
If you aren't sure who you are, you might as well work on who you want to be.
-Robert Brault
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
-Ben Stein
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
We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Neurotic's Notebook"