I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.
-Mark Twain
Quotations
Self - Discovery
Man can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can starve from a lack of bread.
-Richard Wright
"Native Son"
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
You necessarily have to be lost, before you’re found.
-T. Scott McLeod
"All That Is Unspoken"
You might say that we use ourselves to discover ourselves.
-Judith Hanson Lasater
Those who are brutally honest are seldom so with themselves.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Second Neurotic's Notebook"
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"
We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Neurotic's Notebook"
Truth hurts - not the searching after; the running from!
-John Eyberg
In the end you don't so much find yourself as you find someone who knows who you are.
-Robert Brault
