Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
-Michelangelo
Quotations
Self - Discovery
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"
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
-Anna Quindlen
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
-Ben Stein
In the end you don't so much find yourself as you find someone who knows who you are.
-Robert Brault
About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.
-Thomas Albert “Tom” Wilson
To the question of your life, you are the only answer. To the problems of your life, you are the only solution.
-Jo Coudert
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
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
We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Neurotic's Notebook"
