Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
-Alexis Carrel
Quotations
Self - Discovery
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
No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
-Thomas Mann
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
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"
There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives.
-Josephine Hart
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
-Jean De La Fontaine
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
-Michel De Montaigne
If you aren't sure who you are, you might as well work on who you want to be.
-Robert Brault
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
-Nelson Mandela
