Category

Self

We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves. – Jean Guitton

The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us. – Robert Louis Stevenson

Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions. – D.H. Lawrence, Pornography and Obscenity

Man is never alone. Acknowledged or unacknowledged, that which dreams through him is always there to support him from within. – Laurence van der Post

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be. – Jane Austen

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody. – Mark Twain

I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing. – Katherine Anne Porter

Looking back, you realize that a very special person passed briefly through your life, and that person was you. It is not too late to become that person again. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

The only man we have any respect for is the man who uses all the endowment he has, and uses it until he bleeds. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962) [Preceding Fischerisms entry — Karl Lu

And remember, no matter where you go, there you are. – Confucius

There are at least two kinds of cowards. One kind always lives with himself, afraid to face the world. The other kind lives with the world, afraid to face himself. – Roscoe Snowden

So you are lean and mean and resourceful and you continue to walk on the edge of the precipice because over the years you have become fascinated by how close you can walk without losing your balance. – Attributed to Richard M. Nixon

The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge. – Eckhart

Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme. – Daniel Defoe

In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be the gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy. – Robert Louis Stevenson

People wish to be settled: only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, 1841

You have the Answer. Just get quiet enough to hear it. – Pat Obuchowski

Your soul is all that you possess. Take it in hand and make something of it! – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war. – Charles Caleb Colton

At some point in my life, I swallowed a Sun. And now it dawns and sets in my belly. – Erika Harris, empathicwriter.com