Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
-Michelangelo
Quotations
Self - Discovery
We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Neurotic's Notebook"
In order to find yourself you need to get lost in the forest of life.
-Mike Dolan
There is a limit to how much you can change to be liked for who you really are.
-Robert Brault
There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.
-Carol Shields
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"
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
-Anna Quindlen
You might say that we use ourselves to discover ourselves.
-Judith Hanson Lasater
If you have known yourself, you have known everything else. Know that, by knowing which, you will know everything else. The Bible says, “Seek that kingdom within you.” Once you have found that, then everything else will be automatically added unto you; you don’t have to go looking for things outside; they will all come to you.
-Satchidananda Saraswati "Swami Satchidananda"
No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
-Anonymous
