No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
-Thomas Mann
Quotations
Self - Discovery
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
-Alexis Carrel
People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.
-Thomas Stephen Szasz
Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
-Barbara Kingsolver
If you aren't sure who you are, you might as well work on who you want to be.
-Robert Brault
Better to start up a thousand wrong roads than to spend your life going nowhere because you know the way.
-Robert Brault
Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be.
-Robert Brault
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"
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
-Ben Stein
There is a limit to how much you can change to be liked for who you really are.
-Robert Brault
