You might say that we use ourselves to discover ourselves.
-Judith Hanson Lasater
Quotations
Self - Discovery
A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
"Flight to Arras"
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
-Michelangelo
Man can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can starve from a lack of bread.
-Richard Wright
"Native Son"
You necessarily have to be lost, before you’re found.
-T. Scott McLeod
"All That Is Unspoken"
No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
-Thomas Mann
Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason, not that you have no reason for living.
-Tom O'connor
And if you find everything as soon as you look for it, you find it in vain; you look for it in vain.
-Antonio Porchia
"Voces (Voices)"
But there are other 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 M. Dostoevsky
"Notes from the Underground"
Better to start up a thousand wrong roads than to spend your life going nowhere because you know the way.
-Robert Brault
