I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
-Michel De Montaigne
Quotations
Self - Discovery
There is deep wisdom within our very flesh, if we can only come to our senses and feel it.
-Elizabeth A. Behnke
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
-Anna Quindlen
You might say that we use ourselves to discover ourselves.
-Judith Hanson Lasater
In order to find yourself you need to get lost in the forest of life.
-Mike Dolan
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
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)"
We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Neurotic's Notebook"
If you don't get lost, there's a chance you may never be found.
-Anonymous
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
-Michelangelo
