Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
-Alexis Carrel
Quotations
Self - Discovery
And if you find everything as soon as you look for it, you find it in vain; you look for it in vain.
-Antonio Porchia
"Voces (Voices)"
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"
You necessarily have to be lost, before you’re found.
-T. Scott McLeod
"All That Is Unspoken"
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"
Man can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can starve from a lack of bread.
-Richard Wright
"Native Son"
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
-Nelson Mandela
There is deep wisdom within our very flesh, if we can only come to our senses and feel it.
-Elizabeth A. Behnke
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
-Jean De La Fontaine
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
-Michelangelo
