Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
-Alexis Carrel
Quotations
Self - Discovery
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
You might say that we use ourselves to discover ourselves.
-Judith Hanson Lasater
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
-Michelangelo
Those who are brutally honest are seldom so with themselves.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Second Neurotic's Notebook"
There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives.
-Josephine Hart
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
-Michel De Montaigne
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"
Knowing who you are is the best defense against who they think you are.
-Dodinsky
Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be.
-Robert Brault
