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| Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul. ~ Henry Van Dyke, |
| We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves. ~ Jean Guitton |
| We sometimes feel that we have been really understood, but it was always long ago, by someone now dead. ~ Mignon McLaughlin, |
| The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions. ~ D.H. Lawrence, |
| To wash one’s hair, make one’s toilet, and put on scented robes; even if not a soul sees one, these preparations still produce an inner pleasure. ~ Sei Shonagon |
| Man is never alone. Acknowledged or unacknowledged, that which dreams through him is always there to support him from within. ~ Laurence van der Post |
| We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be. ~ Jane Austen |
| Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody. ~ Mark Twain, |
| Think positively about yourself…. ask God who made you to keep on remaking you. ~ Norman Vincent Peale |
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| Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr., |
| I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing. ~ Katherine Anne Porter |
| Looking back, you realize that a very special person passed briefly through your life, and that person was you. It is not too late to become that person again. ~ Robert Brault |
| The only man we have any respect for, is he who uses all the endowment he has, and uses it until he bleeds. ~ Martin H. Fischer |
| And remember, no matter where you go, there you are. ~ Confucius |
| There are at least two kinds of cowards. One kind always lives with himself, afraid to face the world. The other kind lives with the world, afraid to face himself. ~ Roscoe Snowden |
| So you are lean and mean and resourceful and you continue to walk on the edge of the precipice because over the years you have become fascinated by how close you can walk without losing your balance. ~ Attributed to Richard M. Nixon |
| The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge. ~ Eckhart |
| Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme. ~ Daniel Defoe |
My life has been one great big joke,
A dance that’s walked,
A song that’s spoke,
I laugh so hard I almost choke,
When I think about myself.
~ Maya Angelou |
| What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne, |
| It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. ~ Agnes Repplier |
| I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am. ~ Sylvia Plath |
| In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be the gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson |
| The words "I am" are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you’re claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you. ~ A.L. Kitselman |
| People wish to be settled: only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, |
| You have the Answer. Just get quiet enough to hear it. ~ Pat Obuchowski |
| Your soul is all that you possess. Take it in hand and make something of it! ~ Martin H. Fischer |
| The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss – an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. – is sure to be noticed. ~ The Sickness Unto Death |
| We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war. ~ Charles Caleb Colton |