I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
-Michel De Montaigne
Quotations
Self - Discovery
Man can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can starve from a lack of bread.
-Richard Wright
"Native Son"
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
-Alexis Carrel
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
-Nelson Mandela
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"
Those who are brutally honest are seldom so with themselves.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Second Neurotic's Notebook"
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"
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
-Michelangelo
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
