Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
-Alexis Carrel
Quotations
Self - Discovery
Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be.
-Robert Brault
In order to find yourself you need to get lost in the forest of life.
-Mike Dolan
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"
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
-George Moore
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
The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.
-Richard Bach
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
-Jean De La Fontaine
Man can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can starve from a lack of bread.
-Richard Wright
"Native Son"
To the question of your life, you are the only answer. To the problems of your life, you are the only solution.
-Jo Coudert
