Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
-Alexis Carrel
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
-Alexis Carrel
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"
There is a limit to how much you can change to be liked for who you really are.
-Robert Brault
Those who are brutally honest are seldom so with themselves.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Second Neurotic's Notebook"
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
-Michelangelo
To the question of your life, you are the only answer. To the problems of your life, you are the only solution.
-Jo Coudert
You necessarily have to be lost, before you’re found.
-T. Scott McLeod
"All That Is Unspoken"
If you aren't sure who you are, you might as well work on who you want to be.
-Robert Brault
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 indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
-Ben Stein