“And, here I was, left with only myself to deal with. It was entirely up to me.”— James Baldwin, amazon.com
“You’re always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.”— Diane von Furstenberg, marieclaire.co.za
“The human form is a microcosm of the universe. All that supposedly exists outside us in reality exists in us. The world is in you and can become known in you, as you.”— Jean Klein, 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
“Self-care is not selfish or self indulgent. We cannot nurture others from a dry well. We need to take care of our own needs first, then we can give from our surplus, our abundance.”— Jennifer Louden, amazon.com
“I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once, and cannot add up the sum.”— C. G. Jung, amazon.com
“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”— Carlos Ruiz Zafon, amazon.com
“All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naïve. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, an…”— Ralph Ellison, amazon.com
“In the world I am Always a stranger I do not understand its language It does not understand my silence.”— Bei Dao, goodreads.com
“I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don’t want.”— Stanley Kubrick, flavorwire.com
“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.”— Harvey Fierstein, en.wikiquote.org
“It’s a strange business, speaking for yourself, in your own name, because it doesn’t at all come with seeing yourself as an ego or a person or a subject. Individuals find a real name for themselves, rather, only through the harshest exercise in depersonalization, by opening themselves up to the mult…”— Gilles Deleuze, amazon.com
“If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.”— C. S. Lewis, amazon.com