And, here I was, left with only myself to deal with. It was entirely up to me.
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You’re always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.
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.
I am a poem. There is no way out.
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.
I’m better than you think. I’m even better than I think I am.
I’m not much like myself any more.
I am tired of myself to-night. I should like to be somebody else.
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.
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.
Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.
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…
In the world I am Always a stranger I do not understand its language It does not understand my silence.
I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don’t want.
I had lost my mind and fallen into my heart.
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all.
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…
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.
Can you see me? All of me? Probably not. No one ever really has.