“ We have a habit of turning to scientists when we want factual answers and artists when we want entertainment, but where are the facts about the nature of the self? Neurologists peering at PET scans an… James Gleick
“ Up to a point a man's life is shaped by environment heredity and movements and changes in the world about him then there comes a time when it lies within his grasp to shape the clay of his life int… Louis L'Amour
“ Self-pity is a death that has no resurrection a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink. Elizabeth Elliot
“ There is not one big cosmic meaning for all there is only the meaning we each give to our life an individual meaning an individual plot like an individual novel a book for each person. Anais Nin
“ There may be ways in which we can work for change. We don't have to do dramatic things or devote our entire lives to it. We can lead normal lives but at the same time try hard not to be bystanders. Helen Bamber
“ It is a purely relative matter where one draws the plimsoll-line of condemnation and ... if you find the whole of humanity falls below it you have simply made a mistake and drawn it too high. And you… Frances Partridge
“ I believe that dreams transport us through the underside of our days and that if we wish to become acquainted with the dark side of what we are the signposts are there waiting for us to translate t… Gail Godwin
“ After my screen test the director clapped his hands gleefully and yelled "She can't talk! She can't act! She's sensational!" Ava Gardner
“ Self-understanding rather than self-condemnation is the way to inner peace and mature conscience. Joshua L. Liebman
“ He who reigns within himself and rules his passions desires and fears is more than a king. John Milton
“ One sees intelligence far more than one hears it. People do not always say transcendental things but if they are capable of saying them it is always visible. Marie Leneru
“ I've always seen myself as a winner even as a kid. If I hadn't I just might have gone down the drain a couple of times. I've got something inside of me peasantlike and stubborn and I'm in it 'til… Truman Capote
“ I exist as I am that is enough If no other in the world be aware I sit content And if each and all be aware I sit content. Walt Whitman
“ Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may he will only feel satisfaction as he is satisfied in himself. William Hazlitt
“ Whatever you may be sure of be sure of this - that you are dreadfully like other people. James Russell Lowell
“ In the main it is not by introspection but by reflecting on our living in common with others that we come to know ourselves. What is revealed? It is an original creation. Freely the subject makes hims… Bernard Lonergan
“ I refuse to try to explain everything because if you know too much about yourself you become impotent. Better not to know what it is that makes you tick. Paul Wunderlich
“ Nobody knows what's in him until he tries to pull it out. If there's nothing or very little the shock can kill a man. Ernest Hemingway
