The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
-Anna Quindlen
Quotations
Self - Discovery
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
Man can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can starve from a lack of bread.
-Richard Wright
"Native Son"
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
-Michelangelo
In order to find yourself you need to get lost in the forest of life.
-Mike Dolan
No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
-Thomas Mann
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
-Alexis Carrel
There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives.
-Josephine Hart
Truth hurts - not the searching after; the running from!
-John Eyberg
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
-Jean De La Fontaine
