“ 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
“ Why not start figuring out ways to change the way we treat each other? The way we talk to each other, the way we talk about each other. To love each other. You know it starts off with self-love. We ha… Kanye West
“ Going all in and all out for the All in All is both a death sentence and a life sentence. Your sinful nature, along with its selfish desires, is nailed to the cross. Then, and only then, does your tru… Mark Batterson
“ So what do I do? What do we do? How do we move forward when we are tired and afraid? What do we do when the voice in our head is yelling that WE ARE NEVER GONNA MAKE IT? How do we drag ourselves throu… Amy Poehler
“ He thought about how the camera makes one fall in love with an image of oneself, and perpetuates a false reality. Ben Okri
“ How frustrating to think you can be lost to yourself. And yet how often it is that a stranger stares back at you from the mirror. Maybe in truth we never see ourselves as clearly as the thousands of e… Richelle E. Goodrich
“ Till mirrors were Invented, Face was not You, Not Even part of Your Performance. Vineet Raj Kapoor
“ Khird-Mandon Se Kya Puchon Ke Meri Ibtida Kya HaiKe Main Iss Fikar Mein Rehta Hun, Meri Intiha Kya HaiWhat should I ask the sages about my origin:I am always wanting to know my goal. Muhammad Iqbal
“ Khuda tujhe kisi toofaan se aashna karde,Ke tere behr ki maujon men iztiraab naheenMay God grant you a storm! The voyage of your life is on too placid an ocean… Muhammad Iqbal
“ There is a phase of melancholy—a phase that has sloughed all urgency—that seems to me always a revelation of that ancient, familiar thing, my true self. If there is anything in a person with which one… Quentin S. Crisp
“ Sometimes one must become something one fears or loathes in order for the greater self to survive. Alex Lamb
“ These ideas fit the experience of these Japanese women who often talked about searching for or trying to develop "self" (jibun). Cultivating or polishing self by doing tea ceremony or being a good mot… Nancy Ross Rosenberger
“ We all get to discover who we really are at some point, and when we do, it can be quite unsettling. Ted Dekker
“ Elliott was disarmingly bright, according to everyone who knew him, an avid reader of Dostoevsky, Kafka, Beckett, Stendhal, Freud, the Buddha, all of whom destabilized notions of identity. I think he… William Todd Schultz
