Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
-Michelangelo
Quotations
Self - Discovery
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
-George Moore
Knowing who you are is the best defense against who they think you are.
-Dodinsky
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
-Anna Quindlen
No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
-Thomas Mann
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
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"
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
-Michel De Montaigne
There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.
-Carol Shields
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
