People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.
-Thomas Stephen Szasz
Quotations
Self - Discovery
You might say that we use ourselves to discover ourselves.
-Judith Hanson Lasater
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"
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
-Jean De La Fontaine
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
-Michel De Montaigne
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
Truth hurts - not the searching after; the running from!
-John Eyberg
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
Man can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can starve from a lack of bread.
-Richard Wright
"Native Son"
Knowing who you are is the best defense against who they think you are.
-Dodinsky
