"Yoga is the practice of tolerating the consequences of being yourself." Bagavad Gita

"Believe in yourself and there will come a day when others will have no choice but to believe with you." Cynthia Kersey

"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." Dr. Seuss

"Once you forget what you're worth, you forget what you deserve." unknown

"Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them." Coco Chanel

"Monsters are very real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win." Stephen King

"The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others." Sonya Friedman


"It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have not had time to remake the world." Will Durant, historian (1885-1981)

"Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits." Bishop Fulton J. Sheen

"Freedom is the oxygen of the soul." Moshe Dayan

"When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you." 
Lao-Tzu

"Not being able to govern events, I govern myself." Michel de Montaigne, essayist (1533-1592)

"Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world."
 Helen Keller

"Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need for yourself." Jessye Norman

"Everyone must row with the oars he has." English proverb

"The easiest person to fool is yourself." Richard Feynman

"When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package." John Ruskin

"A good listener helps us overhear ourselves." Yahia Lababidi, author (b. 1973)

"Making art is like giving a gift: evidence of your spirit and that you are here." Patty Mitchell, founder and director of Passionworks Studio in Ohio

"There will never be another now -
I'll make the most of today.
There will never be another me -
I'll make the most of myself." Helen Keller

"Through the years, a man peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, tools, stars, horses, and people. Shortly before his death, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the image of his own face." Luis Borges

"To rid ourselves of our shadows--who we are--we must step into either total light or total darkness." Jeremy Preston Johnson

“To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are.” Unknown

“It is your soul's duty to be loyal to your desires.” Rebecca West

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.” Franz Kafka

“We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.” Jean Guitton