I don’t decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory.

Suffering builds character and impels you to penetrate life’s secrets. It’s the path of great artists, great religious leaders, great social reformers. The problem is not suffering per se, but rather our identification with our...

Sometimes the heart breaks… Sometimes you break… Sometimes you break your heart by breaking yourself for someone who wouldn’t do the same…

Depression is not generalized pessimism, but pessimism specific to the effects of one’s own skilled action.

Self-correction makes me check the ruler of my life against the yardstick of my inner voice. I acknowledge when I don’t measure up. Self-correction is an ongoing process. If done often enough, I can stop...

How can I know for sure if it’s my son speaking and not you?””You never can, my lord. Just as no man can ever be sure that he alone is a thinking and feeling creature...

One has to develop attachment to Self.

To forget the whole world is easy; to make the whole world forget you is hard.

Very good, Jason Grace,” Notus said. “You are a son of Jupiter, yet you have chosen your own path- as all the greatest demigods have done before you. You cannot control your parentage, but you...

When you understand what you’re truly worth, who is going to be able to make you feel worthless? No one.

Since I am never alone with myself. Since I am always watching the character playing my part in the scene, there is no possibility of spontaneity.

Don’t mind what people say about youthe most important thing is what you believe you are.

The square root of I is I.

To be enlightened is to know oneself and not run away.

Your worth cannot be determined by the value others place on you it can only be determined by what you know to be true about yourself

We seem to be unable to resist overstating every aspect of ourselves: how long we are on the planet for, how much it matters what we achieve, how rare and unfair are our professional failures,...

Marriage is the union of two ‘I’s to form a ‘V’. Both ‘I’s have to tilt equally to make a good ‘V’. ‘I’s standing tall can never make a ‘V’.

When I became too much myself, I had to change my life.

Like too much alcohol,self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves – mental and material, controlling and controlled, reflective and spontaneous. Thus instead of suffering we suffer about...

It was amazing what I could remember about myself when I retraced my own steps.

Home is neither here nor there. Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.

For I have nothing to lean on, nowhere to call my home and there is nowhere I will go for Christmas to rest my head and touch familiar walls. I have no degree to show...

What I’m looking for is not out there, it is in me.

Know your self package to the core. Never lose the strength of assets, your values, what identifies and separates you, what makes you unique. No, you or I are perfect but we are who we...

The inner self is as distinct from the outer self as heaven is from earth.

Inside our mind there is hidden place that contains the mind within the mind. There, you will find another version of yourself that may be your true self. We do not find that self by...

Over and over we lose this sense of feeling we are wholly in our skins by means already named as well as through extended duress. Those who toil too long without respite are also at...

Life should only be a competition between your new and old self, with the motive of creating a better you in the future.

Time alone helps us to remember who we are.

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

When I fell in love it was as though I looked into a mirror for the first time and saw myself.

She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.

Jung was absolutely right about one thing. We are occupied by gods. The mistake is to identify with the god occupying you.

Why, isabel? Why are you doing this to yourself? To your body?’And why are you doing this to me? is the awful, selfish thought that is left unsaid.’Because I can,’ she answers, and I shiver...

I am lithe, but fragile from constant involuntary self-analysis.

I have no way of knowing whether the events that I am about to narrate are effects or causes.

The price we paid for the volumes of ourselves that we suffocated in the dark.

He himself said it, and this self was Pythagoras.

…ambition or contentment? This simple question led me back to a more balanced view of life and put me in touch with the Me I used to know…

All I plead with you is this: make love of your self perfect

It takes one to know one” when they become lost I condemnation and judgment of others. The world that we perceive is a reflection of our own states of mind and reveals our own level...

He is convinced that the people who might mean something to him will always misjudge him and pass him by. He is not so much afraid of loneliness as he is of accepting cheap substitutes;...

Frankl asserts that “the potentialities of life are not indifferent possibilities, but must be seen in the light of meaning and values.” Such meaning and values cannot be imposed; each individual must seek out for...

But even them, my pains, I understand ill. That must come from my not being all pain and nothing else. There’s the rub. Then they recede, or I, till they fill me with amaze and...

I feel the need to endanger myself every so often.

Between you and you, let there be no secrets. ~T.F. Hodge

From the Absolute to the Relative-from the Infinite to the Finite-from the Undifferentiated to the Differentiated-from the Unconditioned to the Conditioned and again from the Relative to the Absolute. That is the whole truth of...

After bearing the consequences of a mistake, the person either becomes a better person or completely succumbs to the atrocity.

The students and faculty of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities are motivated survivors and self-achievers. We look forward to providing them with effective tools and supportive services that assist them in maximizing their health...

Sometimes, being true to yourself means changing your mind. Self changes, and you follow.