Getting To be With Yourself

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

May Sarton

“We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.”

Katherine Hepburn

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

Rumi

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

Ernest Hemingway

“You are who you are when nobody's watching.”

Stephen Fry

“Don't think about making life better for other people who don't even deserve you, rather, focus on making your life the best, for yourself and those who love you.”

C Joy Bell

“The ability to observe others without evaluating or judging is the highest form of intelligence.”

Jiddu Krishnamurti

“We don't realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace.” You just have to find it.

Elizabeth Gilbert

“The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. - is sure to be noticed.”

Soren Kierkegaard

“This above all: to thine own self be true.”

William Shakespeare