A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
-Jean De La Fontaine
Quotations
Self - Discovery
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"
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"
To the question of your life, you are the only answer. To the problems of your life, you are the only solution.
-Jo Coudert
You might say that we use ourselves to discover ourselves.
-Judith Hanson Lasater
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
-George Moore
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
-Anna Quindlen
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
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
Those who are brutally honest are seldom so with themselves.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Second Neurotic's Notebook"
