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Self-Discovery

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want. – Ben Stein

Knowing who you are is the best defense against who they think you are. – Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com

Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it. – Buddha

By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear. – George Herbert

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes. – Hugh Prather

Better to start up a thousand wrong roads than to spend your life going nowhere because you know the way. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

Basically we are all looking for someone who knows who we are and will break it to us gently. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life. – James A. Michener

It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe. – Thomas Carlyle

In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of persons, and of oneself. – André Gide

You cannot fully understand your own life without knowing and thinking beyond your life, your own neighborhood, and even your own nation. – Johnnetta Cole

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything. – Samuel Johnson, Boswell, Life of Johnson, 1783

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious. – George Bernard Shaw

There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives. – Josephine Hart

Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal. – Russell Lynes

[L]ife ceases to be a fraction and becomes an integer. – Harry Emerson Fosdick, On Being a Real Person

Never be afraid to sit awhile and think. – Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun

Truth hurts — not the searching after; the running from! – John Eyberg

Decorate yourself from the inside out. – Terri Guillemets