There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. ~Nelson Mandela
Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves. ~Henry David Thoreau
You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself. ~Alan Alda
It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, “Go away, I’m looking for the truth,” and so it goes away. Puzzling. ~Robert M. Pirsig
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
If you haven’t had at least a slight poetic crack in the heart, you have been cheated by nature. ~Phyllis Battelle
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. ~G.K. Chesterton
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 Szasz
Every one of us has in him a continent of undiscovered character. Blessed is he who acts the Columbus to his own soul. ~Author Unknown
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. ~George Moore
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth. ~Alan Watts
The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one’s opinion but rather to know it. ~André Maurois
The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart. ~Julien Green
I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can’t find anybody who can tell me what they want. ~Mark Twain
I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself. ~James Baldwin
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. ~Clifton Fadiman
If in the last few years you haven’t discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead. ~Gelett Burgess
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
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor. ~Dr. Alexis Carrel
In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own. ~Alice Walker
We run away all the time to avoid coming face to face with ourselves. ~Author Unknown
There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. ~Anaïs Nin
No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself. ~Thomas Mann
The value of identity of course is that so often with it comes purpose. ~Richard Grant
