Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
-Alexis Carrel
Quotations
Self - Discovery
There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.
-Carol Shields
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
-Anna Quindlen
Man can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can starve from a lack of bread.
-Richard Wright
"Native Son"
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
In the end you don't so much find yourself as you find someone who knows who you are.
-Robert Brault
Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be.
-Robert Brault
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
-Nelson Mandela
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)"
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
-Michelangelo
