Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
-Alexis Carrel
Quotations
Self - Discovery
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
There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives.
-Josephine Hart
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"
You might say that we use ourselves to discover ourselves.
-Judith Hanson Lasater
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
-Michelangelo
No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
-Thomas Mann
We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Neurotic's Notebook"
To the question of your life, you are the only answer. To the problems of your life, you are the only solution.
-Jo Coudert
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)"
