Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
-Alexis Carrel
Quotations
Self - Discovery
Man can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can starve from a lack of bread.
-Richard Wright
"Native Son"
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
-Nelson Mandela
You necessarily have to be lost, before you’re found.
-T. Scott McLeod
"All That Is Unspoken"
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
-Anna Quindlen
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)"
Truth hurts - not the searching after; the running from!
-John Eyberg
There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.
-Carol Shields
In the end you don't so much find yourself as you find someone who knows who you are.
-Robert Brault
To the question of your life, you are the only answer. To the problems of your life, you are the only solution.
-Jo Coudert
