“ If you really do put a small value upon yourself rest assured that the world will not raise your price. Anonymous
“ If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he had such matchless opportunities for observation. George Santayana
“ The opportunities for enjoyment in your life are limitless. If you feel you are not experiencing enough joy you have only yourself to blame. David E. Bresler
“ What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. Susan Sontag
“ The woman I was yesterday, introduced me to the woman I am today; which makes me very excited about meeting the woman I will become tomorrow. Poetic Evolution
“ I used to think that if I were a certain kind of person I would spend all my time creating something beautiful. Well, it turns out I am, and I am. Jason Letts
“ Byron: The luxuries of this place have made me soft.The metal point's gone from my pen, there's nothing left but the feather.Gutman:That may be true.But what can you do about it?Byron:Make a departure… Tennessee Williams
“ Jalebi (dessert) makes tea taste bland [tasteless]. Similarly, when one tastes the happiness of the Self, it makes worldly happiness bland. One cannot break free from the worldly life until one finds… Dada Bhagwan
“ There’s a lot of things wrong with this country, but one of the few things still right with it is that a man can steer clear of the organized bullshit if he really wants to. It’s a goddamned luxury, a… Hunter S. Thompson
“ I think we are well-advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering o… Joan Didion
“ Men are made stronger on realization that the helping hand they need is at the end of their own arm. Sidney J. Phil
“ Real adulthood is the result of two qualities: self-discipline and self-reliance. The process of developing them together in balance is called maturing. J. W. Jepson
“ Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a man deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order to taste the rotten luxury of knowing himself to be lost. Thomas Morton
“ It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much but I am my own comedy and tragedy. Ralph Waldo Emerson
“ I was once the typical daughter then the easily recognizable wife and then the quintessential mother. I seem always to have reminded people of someone in their family. Perhaps I am just the triumph… Helen Hayes
“ We do not make beams from the hollow decaying trunk of the fallen oak. We use the upsoaring tree in the full vigor of its sap. Sylvia Pankhurst
“ We are the same people as we were at three six ten or twenty years old. More noticeably so perhaps at six or seven because we were not pretending so much then. Agatha Christie
