No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself. – Thomas Mann
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth. – Alan Watts
We are the products of editing, rather than authorship. – George Wald, “The Origin of Optical Activity,” Annals of the New York Academy of
You might say that we use ourselves to discover ourselves. – Judith Hanson Lasater
The degree to which a person can grow is directly proportional to the amount of truth he can accept about himself without running away. – Leland Val Van de Wall
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. – Anaïs Nin
There are… 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 Dostoyevsky, “Notes from the Underground,” 1864
Find what makes your heart sing and create your own music. – Mac Anderson
Oh! that you could turn your eyes towards the napes of your necks, and make but an interior survey of your good selves. – William Shakespeare, “Coriolanus”
Know thyself, or at least keep renewing the acquaintance. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. – Anna Quindlen
Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering. – St.Augustine
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. – Nelson Mandela
Confusion now hath made his masterpiece. – William Shakespeare
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. – Douglas Adams
We run away all the time to avoid coming face to face with ourselves. – Author Unknown
In order to find yourself you need to get lost in the forest of life. – Mike Dolan, @HawaiianLife
The road to self-belief is potholed. – Nyasha Madavo
He not busy being born is busy dying. – Bob Dylan
There is a limit to how much you can change to be liked for who you really are. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
