Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
-Michelangelo
Quotations
Self - Discovery
There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.
-Carol Shields
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"
Man can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can starve from a lack of bread.
-Richard Wright
"Native Son"
You might say that we use ourselves to discover ourselves.
-Judith Hanson Lasater
There is a limit to how much you can change to be liked for who you really are.
-Robert Brault
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"
No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
-Anonymous
Better to start up a thousand wrong roads than to spend your life going nowhere because you know the way.
-Robert Brault
About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.
-Thomas Albert “Tom” Wilson
