No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
-Anonymous
No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
-Anonymous
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
-Alexis Carrel
I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.
-Mark Twain
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"
To the question of your life, you are the only answer. To the problems of your life, you are the only solution.
-Jo Coudert
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
-Michel De Montaigne
You necessarily have to be lost, before you’re found.
-T. Scott McLeod
"All That Is Unspoken"
Man can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can starve from a lack of bread.
-Richard Wright
"Native Son"
People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.
-Thomas Stephen Szasz
In order to find yourself you need to get lost in the forest of life.
-Mike Dolan