A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
-Jean De La Fontaine
Quotations
Self - Discovery
We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Neurotic's Notebook"
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
You necessarily have to be lost, before you’re found.
-T. Scott McLeod
"All That Is Unspoken"
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
And if you find everything as soon as you look for it, you find it in vain; you look for it in vain.
-Antonio Porchia
"Voces (Voices)"
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
No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
-Thomas Mann
To the question of your life, you are the only answer. To the problems of your life, you are the only solution.
-Jo Coudert
