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
There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.
-Carol Shields
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
-Alexis Carrel
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"
There is deep wisdom within our very flesh, if we can only come to our senses and feel it.
-Elizabeth A. Behnke
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"
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
You might say that we use ourselves to discover ourselves.
-Judith Hanson Lasater
There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives.
-Josephine Hart
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
