“As we go through life we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves.”

“Life, Enza decided, is not about what you get, but what is taken from you. It's in the things we lose that we discover what we most treasure.”

Adriana Trigiani (1970) American film director

“If we love Him infinitely more than we do ourselves, we make an unconditional sacrifice of ourselves to His good pleasure, desiring only to love Him and to forget ourselves. He who thus loses his soul shall find it again with eternal life.”

François Fénelon (1651–1715) Catholic bishop

“Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.”

Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator

“We must move into the universe. Mankind must save itself. We must escape the danger of war and politics. We must become astronauts and go out into the universe and discover the God in ourselves.”

Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer

“Every now and then its good to step back a little. When we let go a little and remove ourselves from the drama, we can see more clearly. So often we are caught up in the stress we fail to see what triggers our worries. When we are still and put distance between our problems we often discover the solutions”

Michael Elmore-Meegan (1959) British humanitarian

“Every life is, more or less, a ruin among whose debris we have to discover what the person ought to have been.”

José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955) Spanish liberal philosopher and essayist

“There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.”

William Barclay (1907–1978) Church of Scotland minister and academic

“In all these moments, we gradually make our lives more of a prayer and we open our hands to be led by God even to places we would rather not go.”

Henri Nouwen (1932–1996) Dutch priest and writer

“The higher we go, the ups and downs at the lower level would gradually fade. If what we do is to be worth while and if we are to get job satisfaction, we have to study more and work hard. The more we work, the stronger the profession would become and grow.”

D. V. Gundappa (1887–1975) Indian writer