We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Neurotic's Notebook"
Quotations
Self - Discovery
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
-Alexis Carrel
To the question of your life, you are the only answer. To the problems of your life, you are the only solution.
-Jo Coudert
Those who are brutally honest are seldom so with themselves.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Second Neurotic's Notebook"
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
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
-Michel De Montaigne
Knowing who you are is the best defense against who they think you are.
-Dodinsky
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"
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
-Nelson Mandela
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
-George Moore
