“But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“I have never known who or what I am supposed to be. The only thing I know for sure, is that I am supposed to be more than I have been.”— William Chapman, williamchapmanwritings.tumblr.com
“He was a child; but he knew his own soul, it was precious to him, he guarded it as the eyelid guards the eye, and without the key of love he let no one into his soul.”— Leo Tolstoy, amazon.com
“Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.”— Marcel Proust, amazon.com
“A universe without purpose should neither depress us nor suggest that our lives are purposeless. Through an awe-inspiring cosmic history we find ourselves on this remote planet in a remote corner of the universe, endowed with intelligence and self-awareness. We should not despair, but should humbly…”— Lawrence M. Krauss, goodreads.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
“How deeply do any of us know our own selves? Ask yourself. We hold a picture of how we wish to be and hope it goes forever unchallenged. Passing through life never pursuing aspects of our natures with which we’d rather not reckon. Dying strangers to ourselves.”— Craig Davidson, amazon.com
“There are some things you don’t learn about yourself until you let someone else into the most intimate places of your heart.”— Kiera Cass, amazon.com
“We need to change our way of thinking and seeing things. We need to realise that the Earth is not just our environment. The Earth is not something outside of us. Breathing with mindfulness and contemplating your body, you realise that you are the Earth. You realise that your consciousness is also th…”— Thich Nhat Hanh, newsroom.uat.unfccc.int
“And, here I was, left with only myself to deal with. It was entirely up to me.”— James Baldwin, amazon.com
“I am not able, and do not want, completely to abandon the world view that I acquired in childhood. So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about…love…and to take a pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information. It is no use trying to suppress that side of m…”— George Orwell, amazon.com
“I am different. And I don't understand exactly how. And I don't understand just why.”— Ellen Hopkins, amazon.com
“Realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.”— William Moulton Marston, discprofile.com
“The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com
“What you think of yourself is much more important than what others think of you.”— Seneca, alexrovira.com
“I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness.”— Jane Austen, amazon.com