Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
-Alexis Carrel
Quotations
Self - Discovery
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
-Michel De Montaigne
The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.
-Richard Bach
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)"
You might say that we use ourselves to discover ourselves.
-Judith Hanson Lasater
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"
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
-Michelangelo
People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.
-Thomas Stephen Szasz
Truth hurts - not the searching after; the running from!
-John Eyberg
In order to find yourself you need to get lost in the forest of life.
-Mike Dolan
