Every morning I start with a drink from my cup of sunshine, to remind myself of who I am before I step into the world of “this is who we think you are.” – Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com
Once your awareness becomes a flame, it burns up the whole slavery that the mind has created. – Osho
A wise man never loses anything if he have himself. – Michel de Montaigne, translated
The finest thing in the world is knowing how to belong to oneself. – Michel de Montaigne, Of Solitude
Your heart knows your song, but you have to be willing to listen to the words. – Sue Rock, http://sue215.blogspot.com
All men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives, trying to create their idea of a masterpiece. – Eddie Murphy, 1979
May those who are impoverished by their thoughts be blessed with the realization of the richness of their spirit. – Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com
We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us. – W.B. Yeats
What we do flows from who we are. – Paul Vitale
There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself. – W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up, 1938
Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy. – Henri Frederic Amiel
We do not deal much in facts when we are contemplating ourselves. – Mark Twain
Anyone can promise the stars. Only you can reach them. – Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com
Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny. – Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind
I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in the darkness, the astonishing light of your own being. – HÄfez
Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past. – H.F. Hedge
There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. – Hindustani Proverb
Renew thyself completely each day; do it again, and again, and forever again. – Chinese inscription cited by Thoreau in Walden
Every day ask yourself, “What would I do today if I were a better person?” – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Almost always it is the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
