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
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"
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
-George Moore
Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be.
-Robert Brault
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
-Alexis Carrel
Knowing who you are is the best defense against who they think you are.
-Dodinsky
If you aren't sure who you are, you might as well work on who you want to be.
-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"
There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.
-Carol Shields
There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives.
-Josephine Hart
