Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
-Michelangelo
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"
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"
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
-Ben Stein
There is deep wisdom within our very flesh, if we can only come to our senses and feel it.
-Elizabeth A. Behnke
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"
About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.
-Thomas Albert “Tom” Wilson
No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
-Anonymous
Knowing who you are is the best defense against who they think you are.
-Dodinsky
