Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
-Alexis Carrel
Quotations
Self - Discovery
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
By self-study, by observing, by being hollow and empty, you become a channel - you become a part of the Divine. You are able to feel the presence of Divinity. All the different angels and devas, all these different forms of our consciousness, start blossoming.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar "Sri Sri Ravi Shankar"
Truth hurts - not the searching after; the running from!
-John Eyberg
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
-Nelson Mandela
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 necessarily have to be lost, before you’re found.
-T. Scott McLeod
"All That Is Unspoken"
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"
In the end you don't so much find yourself as you find someone who knows who you are.
-Robert Brault
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
-Ben Stein
