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
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