“ ...there is no better time to examine and understand one’s selfhood than when it is dissected and hurtling through darkness. Robert Jackson Bennett
“ Why are you here?Where am I?You have come to this place… to lie in the ground?The derision in the question was clear.I have come to this place to find peace.And what is peace?Laughter in the recesses… Jeffrey Panzer
“ It is precisely the sort of thing I am always trying to do in my writing – to present my unhappy reader with a wide-ranged chaos – of actions and reactions, thoughts, memories and feelings – in the va… Conrad Aiken
“ The ultimate reality from which the path of this becoming could start off again will no longer rest on a ground of 'causa sui.' in any case the sense of a God who would alone be capable of giving an a… Luce Irigaray
“ I think I possess because I do not try to give,Trying to give, I see that I have nothing. Rene Daumal
“ Be grateful for every scar life inflicts on you. Where we’re unhurt is where we are false. Where we are wounded and healed is where our real self gets to show itself. That’s where you get to show who… Sara Gran
“ Am I in love? – yes, since I am waiting. The other one never waits. Sometimes I want to play the part of the one who doesn't wait; I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at… Roland Barthes
“ In that moment, I felt differently to myself yet the essence of who I really was.Like a perfect state of balance. Tim Relf
“ I keep everything hidden because there's nothing about my true self that anyone likes. I'm not difficult, Sebastian. I'm the easiest person around. I don't belong, and I spend all my time pretending I… Courtney Milan
“ Conversion of our views of self in light of God is continual. We daily have to take the time to notice and trust in who he is in order to understand who we are. The book of Romans assures us that God'… Holly Sprink
“ A self needed to spill out sometimes, a body should show evidence of what the hell went on inside it. Ben Marcus
“ And I Said To My Soul, Be LoudMadden me back to an afternoonI carry in menot like a woundbut like a will against a woundGive me again enough manto be the childchoosing my own annihilationsTo make of t… Christian Wiman
“ If originality is a “sense of novelty and freshness” then, in the act of constructing ourselves, originality is not the goal. We construct a self-portrait, relying on existing objects – books, quotes… Gabby Bess
“ SINK OR SWIM ALERTFolks with low self-esteem will push you under to save their drowning egosKamil Ali Kamil Ali
“ Because we are made in God's image, in fleeing from a relationship with a loving God, we are also running from being our most authentic selves. Kathleen Norris
