I am a raging sea trapped in a raindrop. – Author unknown
There is as much difference between us and ourselves as between us and others. – Michel de Montaigne
Reputation is in itself only a farthing candle, of a wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit. – James Russell Lowell
If we cannot be happy and powerful and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves. – Elbert Hubbard
Only you can set you free. – Living Colour, “Cult of Personality”
Everything that I bear within me bound, is to be found somewhere else free. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
You grow up the day you have your first real laugh, at yourself. – Ethel Barrymore
Did you really run into a monster on your path, or just a mirror? – Terri Guillemets
If I had it to do again, I would less often judge myself and more often ask for a jury. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Daily I learn — sometimes painfully, other times with glee — that mine is a path never meant to be paved. – Jeb Dickerson, jebdickerson.com
I am my own heaven and hell! – J.C.F. von Schiller
Grace is within you. If it were external, it would be useless. – Ramana Maharshi
Most often, walking alone with my shadow is how I find my answer, the result of gathering together all agreeable parties. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Falling, falling, falling, falling down. Look yourself in the eye before you drown. – Emily Saliers, “Center Stage,” Indigo Girls, 1989
