People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.
-Thomas Stephen Szasz
Quotations
Self - Discovery
In order to find yourself you need to get lost in the forest of life.
-Mike Dolan
There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.
-Carol Shields
We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Neurotic's Notebook"
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
-Nelson Mandela
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
-Michel De Montaigne
In the end you don't so much find yourself as you find someone who knows who you are.
-Robert Brault
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"
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
There is a limit to how much you can change to be liked for who you really are.
-Robert Brault
