A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
-Jean De La Fontaine
Quotations
Self - Discovery
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
-Michelangelo
If you aren't sure who you are, you might as well work on who you want to be.
-Robert Brault
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"
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
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
-Alexis Carrel
Man can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can starve from a lack of bread.
-Richard Wright
"Native Son"
You might say that we use ourselves to discover ourselves.
-Judith Hanson Lasater
There is deep wisdom within our very flesh, if we can only come to our senses and feel it.
-Elizabeth A. Behnke
There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives.
-Josephine Hart
