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Self

Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom. – Buddha

A criminal becomes a popular figure because he unburdens in no small degree the consciences of his fellow man, for now they know once more where evil is to be found. – Carl G. Jung

We are known to our friends by a look in our eyes that we never see in a mirror. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

We all have to escape from this thing called life sometimes. Maybe we use substances to do it. Maybe we use religion. Maybe we use exercise. Maybe we use anger. But we all have to do it. How we do it is what defines us. – Dan Pearce, author of the Single Dad Laughing blog, www.danoah.com

[T]he hours are even now never so full of gain as when I give them to the sky, the sea, the open wold. Why should we grudge Nature our heart? We might as well grudge it to the God who made the world. – Adeline Sergeant, The Story of a Penitent Soul: Being the Private Papers of Mr.

Dig within. There lies the well-spring of good: ever dig, and it will ever flow. – Marcus Aurelius

The man that shows off, to that one who wants to convince of his value is to himself. – Doménico Cieri Estrada

A man is sometimes lost in the dust of his own raising. – David Ruggles

Things happen in life that make us question our faith when perhaps they ought to make us question our life. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Some things become so completely our own that we forget them. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

The inward light is forever striving to gather enough additional light to penetrate the fog of our senses. – Henry Stanley Haskins, Meditations in Wall Street, 1940, originally published an

Though confined to our destiny, we do get to pick the color scheme. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

It is not impossibilities which fill us with the deepest despair, but possibilities which we have failed to realize. – Robert Mallett, Apostilles, 1972

The Divine does not like to be shut up in a building. The Divine likes to be out in the open. It is right here in this very body. Each one of us is a miniature universe, a living shrine. – Morihei Ueshiba

…my candle to the Milky Way… – Terri Guillemets

There is part of us that stands in quiet witness to what we do, taking notes, waiting for a solitary moment to bring up the subject. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

There is luxury in self-reproach…. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us. – Oscar Wilde

Take the time to come home to yourself every day. – Robin Casarjean

When you blame and criticize others, you are avoiding some truth about yourself. – Deepak Chopra

If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain. – André Maurois