A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
-Jean De La Fontaine
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
-Jean De La Fontaine
Man can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can starve from a lack of bread.
-Richard Wright
"Native Son"
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"
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
-Michel De Montaigne
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
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
-Alexis Carrel
Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be.
-Robert Brault
About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.
-Thomas Albert “Tom” Wilson
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
-Anna Quindlen
Truth hurts - not the searching after; the running from!
-John Eyberg