Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
-Alexis Carrel
Quotations
Self - Discovery
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
-Jean De La Fontaine
Man can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can starve from a lack of bread.
-Richard Wright
"Native Son"
We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Neurotic's Notebook"
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
-Michel De Montaigne
And if you find everything as soon as you look for it, you find it in vain; you look for it in vain.
-Antonio Porchia
"Voces (Voices)"
Those who are brutally honest are seldom so with themselves.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Second Neurotic's Notebook"
Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be.
-Robert Brault
Truth hurts - not the searching after; the running from!
-John Eyberg
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
-George Moore
