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"Almost always it is the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the
mirror." --- Antonio Porchia, Voces "Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody." --- Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson "Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past." --- H.F. Hedge "How do I get where I come from?" --- Seal "I am my own heaven and hell!" --- J.C.F. von Schiller "It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere." --- Agnes Repplier  "It is within families that truth is best learned, integrity is cultivated, self-discipline is instilled, and love is nurtured."--- Gordon B. Hinckley "It's like, at the end, there's this surprise quiz�I gave my life to become the person I am right now! Was it worth what I paid?" --- Richard Bach "Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." --- George Bernard Shaw "Misfortunes one can endure - they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults - ah! there is the sting of life." --- Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan "Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul." --- Henry Van Dyke, The Prison and the Angel "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others." --- Mahatma Gandhi "�The best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves." --- Walter Lippmann "The finest thing in the world is knowing how to belong to oneself." --- Michel de Montaigne, Of Solitude "The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere." --- James Russell Lowell "The words "I am" are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you." --- A.L. Kitselman "To find yourself, think for yourself." --- Socrates "We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities others ascribe to us - in order to deceive ourselves." --- Friedrich Nietzsche "When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something." --- Robert Browning, "Bishop Blougram's Apology" " We must be our own before we can be another's." --- Ralph Waldo Emerson " You grow up the day you have your first real laugh, at yourself." --- Ethel Barrymore "You never find yourself until you face the truth." --- Pearl Bailey Submit your favoite introspective discovery quotations to: [email protected] For more quotation topics, click here. |
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