“A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.”
– Jean de La Fontaine
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“What you discover on your own is always more exciting than what someone else discovers for you – it’s like the marriage between romantic love and an arranged marriage.”
– Terrence Rafferty
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“Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.”
– Hugh Prather
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“It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.”
– Lucille Ball
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“Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, he wants to reestablish them. Ignorance irritates him and knowledge cloys.”
– Henri Frederic Amiel
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“The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.”
– Muhammad Ali
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“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
– Aristotle
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“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
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“If you don’t get lost, there’s a chance you may never be found.”
– Anonymous
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“Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
– Carl Jung
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“You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.”
– Jerry Gillies
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“There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.”
– Aldous Huxley
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“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
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“A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”
– Henry David Thoreau
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“Man can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as… from a lack of bread.”
– Richard Wright
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“Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.”
– William Butler Yeats
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“For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.”
– Clifton Fadiman
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“Know yourself. Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.”
– Ann Landers
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“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
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“‘Know thyself?’ If I knew myself, I’d run away.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“Like an old gold-panning prospector, you must resign yourself to digging up a lot of sand from which you will later patiently wash out a few minute particles of gold ore.”
– Dorothy Bryant
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