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
No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
-Thomas Mann
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"
There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.
-Carol Shields
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
The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.
-Richard Bach
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
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
