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 thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
-Anna Quindlen
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
-Jean De La Fontaine
About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.
-Thomas Albert “Tom” Wilson
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"
To the question of your life, you are the only answer. To the problems of your life, you are the only solution.
-Jo Coudert
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
-Michelangelo
You might say that we use ourselves to discover ourselves.
-Judith Hanson Lasater
Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be.
-Robert Brault
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"
Man can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can starve from a lack of bread.
-Richard Wright
"Native Son"