“Over the years you have built an idealized self-image that you defend as "me." In this image are packed all the things you want to see as true about yourself; banished from it are all the shameful, guilty, and fear-provoking aspects that would threaten your self-confidence.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com
“The person you call an enemy is an exaggerated aspect of your own shadow self.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com
“I learn a good deal by merely observing you, And letting you talk as long as you please, And taking note of what you do not say.”— T. S. Eliot, amazon.com
“Perhaps the most exhausting part of the charade was time spent watching myself through the lens of others; contorting myself into something more palatable for the next person; shouldering guilt and expectations that weren’t mine to bear; and swallowing discomfort when I wanted to bellow, 'I’m not ok…”— Martine Thompson, vogue.com
“The truth is, I pretend to be a cynic, but I am really a dreamer who is terrified of wanting something she may never get.”— Joanna Hoffman, goodreads.com
“Emotions really exist at the bottom of the personality or at the top. In the middle they are acted. This is why all the world is a stage.”— Iris Murdoch, amazon.com
“When you’re an introvert like me and you’ve been lonely for a while, and then you find someone who understands you, you become really attached to them. It’s a real release.”— Lana Del Rey, complex.com
“I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.”— Michel Foucault, amazon.com
“It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.”— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com
“When she is happy, she can’t stop talking, when she is sad she doesn’t say a word.”— Ann Brashares, amazon.com
“I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy, and driven.”— Barbra Streisand, huffingtonpost.ca