You may feel like dwelling on your limits or your fears. Don't do it. A perfect prescription for a squandered, unfulfilled life is to accommodate self-defeating feelings while undercutting your finest, most productive ones - Marsha Sinetar, American Author
Why was I born with such contemporaries? - Oscar Wilde
When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you - Laozi
What is hell? Hell is oneself? Hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections - T.S. Eliot, from The Cocktail Party
What I am is a heretic who's recanted and thereby in everyone's eyes saved his soul. Everyone's eyes but one, who knows deep down inside that all he has saved is his skin - Robert Pirsig http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1951397,00.html
We need new kinds of relationships, based on esteem rather than passion - Theodore Zeldin, Intimate History of Humanity, p126
We have only to eliminate the ego-notion by succeeding in the difficult task of understanding that it does not exist except as a notion - Why Lazurus Laughed by Wei Wu Wei
We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people - Arthur Schopenhauer
Thoroughly to know oneself, is above all art, for it is the highest art - Theologia Germanica
There are no insignificant lives - Walt Whitman