#Self

"the worst thing,"he told me,"is bitterness, people end up sobitter."

"This above all: to thine own self be true."

"المرآة تعكس بدقة متناهية دون أن تخطئ ابداَ . لأنها وبكل بساطة لا تفكر"

"Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form."

"I paid, got up, walkedto the door, openedit.I heard the mansay, "that guy'snuts."out on the street Iwalked northfeelingcuriouslyhonored."

"Love is the outreach of self toward completion."

"We are no longer in the dispensation of age and experience. We are in the era of knowledge and information. Information leads a true leader and a true leader leads others."

"I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating."

"Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity."

"We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be."

"Body love is more than acceptance of self or the acceptance of the body. Body love is about self-worth in general. It's more than our physical appearance."

"For everyone now strives most of all to seperate his person, wishing to experience the fullness of life within himself, and yet what comes of all his efforts is not the fullness of life, but full suicide, for instead of the fullness of self-definition, they fall into complete isolation."

"Don't look to the approval of others for your mental stability"

"In that little pocket-size world of his, he was the absolute master."

"I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world."

"The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being."

"True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions."

"I was tired of being me."

"The first law of nature is self-preservation. Cut off that which may harm you. But if it is worth preserving, and is meaningful, nourish it and have no regrets. Ultimately, this is true living and love of self...from within."

"One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error."