“ You play to different parts of yourself when you take on various roles. Like, you are your confident self when you're playing this person, and you're your sad self when playing another person - but it… Riley Keough
“ If you do not ask yourself what it is you know you will go on listening to others and change will not come because you will not hear your own truth. Saint Bartholomew
“ To pursue yourself is an interesting and absorbing thing to do. Once you have caught the scent of a hidden being your own hidden being you won't readily be deflected from the tracking down of it. Cynthia Propper Seton
“ Talk uses up ideas. ... Once I have spoken them aloud they are lost to me dissipated into the noisy air like smoke. Only if I bury them like bulbs in the rich soil of silence do they grow. Doris Grumbach
“ He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down and without walls. Bible
“ I will write of him who fights and vanquishes his sins who struggles on through weary years against himself ... and wins. Caroline Begelow LeRow
“ Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought and not as many of those who worry about their shortcomings believe an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory. Emily Post
“ Search and you will find that at the base and birth of every great business organization was an enthusiast a man consumed with earnestness of purpose with confidence in his powers with faith in the… B. C. Forbes
“ Don't buy the garbage that you're over the hill at fifty. This country makes such a big thing about age particularly if you're a woman. What I think is relevant is your experience what you have to o… Molly Yard
“ A man needs self-acceptance or he can't live with himself he needs self-criticism or others can't live with him. James A. Pike
“ What the collective age wants allows and approves is the perpetual holiday from the self. Thomas Mann
“ A sick man that gets talking about himself a woman that gets talking about her baby and an author that begins reading out of his own book never know when to stop. Oliver Wendell Holmes
“ Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go. Georges Gurdjieff
“ To make yourself something less than you can be - that too is a form of suicide. Benjamin Lichtenberg
“ Often when she liked a picture she found that she was liking some part of herself, some part of her that was in accord with the picture Jeanette Winterson
“ ... nothing that happened could ever hurt the most important part of her, nothing that happened outside herself could ever make her less than what God had meant for her to be. Klavan
