Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
-Alexis Carrel
Quotations
Self - Discovery
Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be.
-Robert Brault
We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Neurotic's Notebook"
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
-Michel De Montaigne
A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
"Flight to Arras"
No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
-Anonymous
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
-Anna Quindlen
In the end you don't so much find yourself as you find someone who knows who you are.
-Robert Brault
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)"
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
