Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
-Alexis Carrel
Quotations
Self - Discovery
You might say that we use ourselves to discover ourselves.
-Judith Hanson Lasater
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
-Ben Stein
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
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 an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives.
-Josephine Hart
If you aren't sure who you are, you might as well work on who you want to be.
-Robert Brault
There is a limit to how much you can change to be liked for who you really are.
-Robert Brault
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"
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
-Nelson Mandela
