Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
-Alexis Carrel
Quotations
Self - Discovery
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
-Nelson Mandela
You might say that we use ourselves to discover ourselves.
-Judith Hanson Lasater
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
-Jean De La Fontaine
Better to start up a thousand wrong roads than to spend your life going nowhere because you know the way.
-Robert Brault
Those who are brutally honest are seldom so with themselves.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Second Neurotic's Notebook"
Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
-Barbara Kingsolver
You necessarily have to be lost, before you’re found.
-T. Scott McLeod
"All That Is Unspoken"
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)"
There is deep wisdom within our very flesh, if we can only come to our senses and feel it.
-Elizabeth A. Behnke
