The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
-Anna Quindlen
Quotations
Self - Discovery
Better to start up a thousand wrong roads than to spend your life going nowhere because you know the way.
-Robert Brault
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"
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
-Michel De Montaigne
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
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)"
There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.
-Carol Shields
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
-Alexis Carrel
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"
