Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
-Michelangelo
Quotations
Self - Discovery
Those who are brutally honest are seldom so with themselves.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Second Neurotic's Notebook"
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
No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
-Anonymous
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"
We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Neurotic's Notebook"
You might say that we use ourselves to discover ourselves.
-Judith Hanson Lasater
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
-Nelson Mandela
In the end you don't so much find yourself as you find someone who knows who you are.
-Robert Brault
In order to find yourself you need to get lost in the forest of life.
-Mike Dolan
