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)"
Quotations
Self - Discovery
Man can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can starve from a lack of bread.
-Richard Wright
"Native Son"
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
-Anna Quindlen
To the question of your life, you are the only answer. To the problems of your life, you are the only solution.
-Jo Coudert
There is deep wisdom within our very flesh, if we can only come to our senses and feel it.
-Elizabeth A. Behnke
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
-Nelson Mandela
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
-Michelangelo
We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Neurotic's Notebook"
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
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
-Alexis Carrel
