“ Despise your heart. I wanted to. I didn't want to grieve anymore, to feel loss or guilt, or worry. I wanted to be hard, calculating. I wanted to be fearless. Leigh Bardugo
“ The most difficult journey any of us ever take in our adulthood is the return to our parents’ house. A home visit makes us recall all of the childhood events that formed us. Returning home reacquaints… Kilroy J. Oldster
“ Yes, the same God who created all the universes created you as a one-of-a-kind. He knows you and loves you and commands you to love yourself. Toni Sorenson
“ The best thinking says 'the self' is a fiction (I have a piece about that), yet it's a fiction that we all believe, our most intimate experience. Maybe it's nothing more than our tendency to repeat. M… Richard Greenberg
“ People's hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what's at the bottom. All you can do is guess from what comes floating to the surface every once in a while Haruki Murakami
“ If I don’t know who I am apart from everyone else, I probably need to spend some time apart from everyone else. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ I thought of the pieces of me I'd left behind, a piece here, a piece there, scattered like bread crumbs. How much of me was left? Jennifer Niven
“ One of the central themes associated with developing a sense of authenticity involves inventing plausible narratives of self. For instance, Charles Taylor (1992) argues that the modern desire for auth… André Spicer
“ But if time exists only in my head, and I'm the last human being, it will end with my death. The thought cheers me. I may be in a position to murder time. The big net will tear and fall, with its sad… Marlen Haushofer
“ Your personality of the mind is like a castle of sand around the sea. The time you begin to disassociate yourself with different experiences and impressions of both the external and internal world, yo… Roshan Sharma
“ Thus the perception of the infinite is somehow prior in me to the perception of the finite, that is, my perception of God is prior to my perception of myself. For how would I understand that I doubt a… Rene Descartes
“ Mrs. Baker's social manner was almost robotlike in its perfection. All her comments and remarks were natural, normal, everyday currency, but one had a suspicion that the whole thing was like an actor… Agatha Christie
“ Don't build yourself an ivory tower" the moralists say. But I am an ivory tower by the mere fact that I am. On the crude physical level the body is a frame of (ivory) bones on which the muscles are st… Nanamoli Thera
“ You grow. You are large. You are a 19th century poem.All of America is inside you,a catalogue of lives and landand burrowing things.-From "Catalogue Donika Kelly
“ Refuse the old means of measurement.Rely instead on the thrumming wilderness of self. Listen.-From "Out West Donika Kelly
“ I lived willy-nilly. Without any sense of being part of the order of things. I lived by fragments, pieces, scraps, in the moment, at random, from incident to incident, as if buffeted by ebb and flow.… Wiesław Myśliwski
“ Is it possible to cause so much misery to another human being, simply by being oneself? she wondered, feeling a reflection of that misery. No help for it; she must continue to be herself. Amy Witting
