No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
-Thomas Mann
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 can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.
-Mark Twain
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
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
-Jean De La Fontaine
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
-Alexis Carrel
There is deep wisdom within our very flesh, if we can only come to our senses and feel it.
-Elizabeth A. Behnke
Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
-Barbara Kingsolver
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"
Better to start up a thousand wrong roads than to spend your life going nowhere because you know the way.
-Robert Brault
