Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
-Alexis Carrel
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
-Alexis Carrel
In the end you don't so much find yourself as you find someone who knows who you are.
-Robert Brault
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
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"
There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.
-Carol Shields
About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.
-Thomas Albert “Tom” Wilson
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
-Michelangelo
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
-Anna Quindlen
Man can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can starve from a lack of bread.
-Richard Wright
"Native Son"
Those who are brutally honest are seldom so with themselves.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Second Neurotic's Notebook"