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

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.

Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

We cultivate love when we allow our most vulnerable and powerful selves to be deeply seen and known, and when we honor the spiritual connection that grows from that offering with trust, respect, kindness and affection. Love is not something we give or get; it is something that we nurture and grow, a connection that can only be cultivated between two people when it exists within each one of them – we can only love others as much as we love ourselves. Shame, blame, disrespect, betrayal, and the withholding of affection damage the roots from which love grows. Love can only survive these injuries if they are acknowledged, healed and rare.

I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.

Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens

A fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement

V-Day…if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for “your loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love.

You cannot be with someone just because you don’t want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about.

Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.

My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism.

Love After Love The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other's welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate notes, peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.

Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.

If someone does not want me it is not the end of the world. But if I do not want me, the world is nothing but endings.