The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
-Anna Quindlen
Quotations
Self - Discovery
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
-Michel De Montaigne
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
Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be.
-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"
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
-Alexis Carrel
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
In the end you don't so much find yourself as you find someone who knows who you are.
-Robert Brault
No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
-Anonymous
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
