Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
Source: In The Almanac of Quotable Quotes from 1990, by Ronald D. Pasquariello, 1991.
-- Henry David Thoreau, (Jul 12 1817-1862), US essayist, poet, naturalist; He is best known for his description of life at Walden Pond, Walden, 1854 and his essay Civil Disobedience, 1849.