Man can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can starve from a lack of bread.
-Richard Wright
"Native Son"
Quotations
Self - Discovery
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 cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
-Alexis Carrel
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
-Michelangelo
You might say that we use ourselves to discover ourselves.
-Judith Hanson Lasater
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 is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
-Nelson Mandela
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
-Ben Stein
There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.
-Carol Shields
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
-Michel De Montaigne
