“I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.”— Michel de Montaigne, en.wikiquote.org
“I do all this alone, everything I achieve, I achieve alone, because it’s my head I’m locked into, and I share this space with nobody but myself.”— Alex Garland, amazon.com
“People always say be true to yourself. But that’s misleading, because there are two selves. There’s your short term self, and there’s your long term self. And if you’re only true to your short term self, your long term self slowly decays.”— Brandon Stanton, amazon.com
“Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com
“Perhaps it is good to have a beautiful mind, but an even greater gift is to discover a beautiful heart.”— John Nash, edgestudio.com
“The truth is that monsters are real, and ghosts are real, too. They live inside us, and sometimes they win.”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“But I am somebody... I am me. I like being me. And I need nobody to make me somebody.”— Louis L'Amour, amazon.com
“There are times when you don’t know yourself. There are times when you don’t want to know yourself. There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.”— Aidan Chambers, amazon.com
“You are what you love. No? You are, completely and only, what you would die for without, as you say, the thinking twice.”— David Foster Wallace, amazon.com
“Honesty always gets my attention. Not particularly someone who is honest to me, but someone who is honest with themselves.”— Heath Ledger, goodreads.com
“I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.”— Hermann Hesse, amazon.com
“If you see yourself in the correct way, you are all as much an extraordinary phenomena of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars, and the form of a galaxy. You are all just like that, and there is nothing wrong with you at all.”— Alan Watts, amazon.com