Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
-Alexis Carrel
Quotations
Self - Discovery
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
-Jean De La Fontaine
Truth hurts - not the searching after; the running from!
-John Eyberg
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"
In order to find yourself you need to get lost in the forest of life.
-Mike Dolan
We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Neurotic's Notebook"
In the end you don't so much find yourself as you find someone who knows who you are.
-Robert Brault
Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be.
-Robert Brault
You necessarily have to be lost, before you’re found.
-T. Scott McLeod
"All That Is Unspoken"
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
