Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
-Alexis Carrel
Quotations
Self - Discovery
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
-Michelangelo
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
-Michel De Montaigne
No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
-Thomas Mann
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
If you have known yourself, you have known everything else. Know that, by knowing which, you will know everything else. The Bible says, “Seek that kingdom within you.” Once you have found that, then everything else will be automatically added unto you; you don’t have to go looking for things outside; they will all come to you.
-Satchidananda Saraswati "Swami Satchidananda"
There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.
-Carol Shields
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
-Anna Quindlen
You might say that we use ourselves to discover ourselves.
-Judith Hanson Lasater
