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
Quotations
Self - Discovery
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
There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives.
-Josephine Hart
Those who are brutally honest are seldom so with themselves.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Second Neurotic's Notebook"
No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
-Anonymous
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
To the question of your life, you are the only answer. To the problems of your life, you are the only solution.
-Jo Coudert
Better to start up a thousand wrong roads than to spend your life going nowhere because you know the way.
-Robert Brault
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
