“ I was always willing to take a great deal of the burden of getting along in life on my own shoulders but I wasn't willing to give myself a pat on the back. I was always looking to somebody else to gi… Raquel Welch
“ My great mistake the fault for which I can't forgive myself is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality. Oscar Wilde
“ To be nobody but yourself- in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting. e. e. cummings
“ Goethe said there would be little left of him if you were to discard what he owed to others. Charlotte Cushman
“ One may understand the cosmos but never the ego the self is more distant than any star. G. K. Chesterton
“ We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other people's models learn to be ourselves and allow our natural channel to open. Shakti Gawain
“ When I have been unhappy I have heard an opera ... and it seemed the shrieking of winds when I am happy a sparrow's chirp is delicious to me. But it is not the chirp that makes me happy but I that… John Ruskin
“ Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else. Eleanor Roosevelt
“ You want to be loved? Love yourself first and passionately. Forgive yourself readily. Care for every part of you. Only when you love yourself do you have love to give to others. Toni Sorenson
“ Changing yourself is not about changing of what you are. But changing other's perspective that they always think you are. Dancolin Flamiano
“ I wash off the night in the water, my scrapes and aches numbed by the sea. My bones have become boughs, all scarred knees and gnarled kuckles. None of us are the same person we once were, since the hu… Philip Hoare
“ Enlightenment is nothing but to experience your own mind. The experience of the self too is experiencing the intrinsic nature of the mind. Roshan Sharma
“ Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself; I am large -- I contain multitudes. Walt Whitman
“ I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am! Nathaniel Hawthorne
“ He (Anwar Sadat) records that he was almost loathe to leave his prison cell because it was there that he realized that real success is success with self. It’s not in having things, but in having maste… Stephen R. Covey
“ Each of us comes into being knowing who he is and what he is supposed to do.' ... 'Small children know,' Leto said. 'It's only after adults have confused them that children hide this knowledge even fr… Frank Herbert
