Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity.

The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out...

…you find your genius by looking in the mirror of your life. Your visible image shows your inner truth, so when you’re estimating others, what you see is what you get. It therefore becomes critically...

It seems that it is madder never to abandon one’s self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armor

When the rose opens its heart, you will smell the fragrance of its soul.

If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.

If someone does not want me it is not the end of the world. But if I do not want me, the world is nothing but endings.

I’m just being too picky at what I swing at. I’m not being my normal aggressive self. The bottom line is (the umpires) aren’t going to change, so I’ve got to change.

Then from those profound slumbers we awake in a dawn, not knowing who we are, being nobody, newly born, ready for anything, the brain emptied of that past which was life until then. And perhaps...

I know everything of what i know, but of what i dont know i know nothing

I keep myself to myself.

When I loved myself enough, I would sometimes wake in the night to music playing within me.

Jim was his effusive self. We talked about Romania, where Jim was selling shopping center sites.

He had lived and acted on the assumption that he was alone, and now he saw that he had not been. What he had done made others suffer. No matter how much he would long...

En natt i lengst forsvundne tider våknet mennesket og så seg selv… da dyrene kom til sine vannhull, hvor han ventet dem av gammel vane, da kjente han ikke lenger tigerspranget i sitt blod, men...

You won’t fail! That’s the fear in you lying to you. You will succeed! That’s why fear is trying so hard to stop you. I encourage you to take that first step. Walk into your...

We’re all guilty of dedicating time to people who didn’t value it.

Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, when I give I give myself.

IIA grief without a pang, void, dark, and drear, A stifled, drowsy, unimpassioned grief, Which finds no natural outlet, no relief, In word, or sigh, or tear — O Lady! in this wan and heartless...

[T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself.

You are always left with choice not chance

In that moment, I felt differently to myself yet the essence of who I really was.Like a perfect state of balance.

There is nothing we could add to that which has already been created….perfection.

Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self–to the mediating intellect–as to verge close to being beyond description. It thus remains nearly incomprehensible...

When you knock my heart a voice echoes ‘welcome to the jungle’ and once you are inside you meet Ghosts

The bottom line is they used a taxpayer-funded, self-proclaimed war room to issue a political smear document, Harry’s Hypocrisy.

Why were there no words that spoke positively about being concerned about the self? Why was there only negative connotation in terms like “selfish”, “self-interested”, “self-centred”, “self-obsessed” and so on? Why was it so much...

In a swamp, as in meditation, you begin to glimpse how elusive, how inherently insubstantial, how fleeting our thoughts are, our identities. There is magic in this moist world, in how the mind lets go,...

Some care is needed in using Descartes’ argument. “I think, therefore I am” says rather more than is strictly certain. It might seem as though we are quite sure of being the same person to-day...

We become full human agents, capable of understanding ourselves, and hence of defining our identity, through our acquisition of rich human languages of expression.

Each action we take is an act of self-expression. We often think of large-scale or important deeds as being indications of our real selves, but even how we sharpen a pencil can reveal something about...

We need dualities or opposites to appreciate, understandand recognize value and distinction in our lives. If we did not have bitter, we could not appreciate sweet….

What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.

The tongue is the best masseur of furrowed brows.

Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.

Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.

To seek contentment is to release the novelty that lies within monotony

If I was made of cake I’d eat myself before somebody else could.

Our real Self does not ask questions, as it does not require answers. It is there, it is present Now. We are only able to find it if we forget about questions and submit to...

Great mysteries inhabit the threshold of my being.

I used to think that if I were a certain kind of person I would spend all my time creating something beautiful. Well, it turns out I am, and I am.

Ego, Identity and Self – the 3 concepts of one’s creation that defines them entirely. Have an Ego, for without one, there is nothing but self-doubt. Have an Identity, for without one, there is nothing...

I’m not strong enough to do that.

The discipline gave me a sense of achievement. Not least, fasting is a testof willpower and, whenever I felt my willpower weakening, I would tell myself that I could eat asmuch as I wanted after...

My NameOnce when the lawn was a golden green and the marbled moonlit trees rose like fresh memorials in the scented air, and the whole countryside pulsed with the chirr and murmur of insects, I...

I lose part of myself that day and I don’t want to lose even more.

Although selfhood depends causally upon the existence of the brain, it amounts to something far more than the brain. This something is vague and intangible, and might best be described, I think, as a semi-fictional...

Non nobis solum nati sumus.(Not for ourselves alone are we born.)

I think I possess because I do not try to give,Trying to give, I see that I have nothing.