A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
-Jean De La Fontaine
Quotations
Self - Discovery
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"
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
Knowing who you are is the best defense against who they think you are.
-Dodinsky
You necessarily have to be lost, before you’re found.
-T. Scott McLeod
"All That Is Unspoken"
There is a limit to how much you can change to be liked for who you really are.
-Robert Brault
Man can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can starve from a lack of bread.
-Richard Wright
"Native Son"
Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be.
-Robert Brault
