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
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
-Jean De La Fontaine
There is a limit to how much you can change to be liked for who you really are.
-Robert Brault
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
-Michelangelo
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
-Nelson Mandela
Those who are brutally honest are seldom so with themselves.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Second Neurotic's Notebook"
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"
Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason, not that you have no reason for living.
-Tom O'connor
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
-Ben Stein
