My heart filled with love, flowing over with joy, my own little drum that I like to march by! – Gunda Fijnje-Nolan
A man is ever apt to contemplate himself out of all proportion to his surroundings. – Christina G. Rossetti
The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual — namely to You. – Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1892
Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul. – Henry Van Dyke, The Prison and the Angel
The hardest prisons to break out of are the ones we build ourselves. – Author unknown
There is great security in the prisons we create for ourselves. – Stephen G. Scalese, The Whisper in Your Heart
You are your own judge. The verdict is up to you. – Astrid Alauda
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book shown to him by heart, and his friends can only read the title. – Virginia Woolf
Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us. – Thomas Browne
Each one of us is alone in the world… We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them. – W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, 1919
It is no good casting out devils. They belong to us, we must accept them and be at peace with them. – D.H. Lawrence
No matter how hard you pursue pleasure and success, there are times when you fail. No matter how fast you flee, there are times when pain catches up with you. – Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Sometimes at night I light a lamp so as not to see. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused. – Marcel Proust
Be there for others, but never leave yourself behind. – Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com
What an odd, ruminating, noisy, self-interrupting conversation we conduct with ourselves from birth to death. – Diane Ackerman, An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain
Just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are. – Kabir
My greatest wealth is the deep stillness in which I strive and grow and win what the world cannot take from me with fire or sword. – Johan Wolfgang Von Goethe
Care for yourself enough to listen carefully to what you say to yourself. – Willis Goth Regier, In Praise of Flattery, 2007
The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely. – Lorraine Hansberry
