Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
-Barbara Kingsolver
Quotations
Self - Discovery
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
-Michel De Montaigne
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
-Michelangelo
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
-Nelson Mandela
You necessarily have to be lost, before you’re found.
-T. Scott McLeod
"All That Is Unspoken"
Knowing who you are is the best defense against who they think you are.
-Dodinsky
You might say that we use ourselves to discover ourselves.
-Judith Hanson Lasater
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
-Alexis Carrel
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
