A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
-Jean De La Fontaine
Quotations
Self - Discovery
Those who are brutally honest are seldom so with themselves.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Second Neurotic's Notebook"
No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
-Thomas Mann
Man can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can starve from a lack of bread.
-Richard Wright
"Native Son"
In the end you don't so much find yourself as you find someone who knows who you are.
-Robert Brault
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
-Michelangelo
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
-Anna Quindlen
Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason, not that you have no reason for living.
-Tom O'connor
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
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
-Nelson Mandela
