“ The thing that makes you exceptional if you are at all is inevitably that which must also make you lonely. Lorraine Hansbury
“ Life I fancy would very often be insupportable but for the luxury of self-compassion. George R. Gissing
“ There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self. Aldous Huxley
“ I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare but I can write a book by me. Sir Walter Raleigh
“ What a man thinks of himself that is what determines or rather indicates his fate. Henry David Thoreau
“ Life isn't only about choice. Life is about how you provide value to your life and others. Launa Rissadia
“ The "self," it seems today, is at the core of the nation's worldview rather than others (the common good), or God. Martha MacCullough
“ Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Golda Meir
“ The Illusory SelfI am composed of body and soul, I seem to have mind, reason, sense, yet I find none of them my own. For where was my body prior to my birth, and whither will it go when I have departe… Philo of Alexandria
“ Enriched vocabularies someone had (and used) are produced by a boundless wondrous mind. Sometime with a non mediocre experience also. Nin
“ People are like lights. Some are colored lights and draw attention to themselves. Others are clear lights. They shine on people in around them. Steve Goodier