The things about others that irritate, annoy, and unsettle us are the very things we have not accepted and embraced about ourselves
We only have one life to live, and must go on with it to the end, that if we feel it is meaningless, then we ourselves must give it meaning.
Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.
Quit being so hard on yourself. We are what we are; we love what we love. We don't need to justify it to anyone... not even to ourselves.
In the end, the slow decay of the body didn't matter. We all continue on, renewing ourselves, through our offspring. They are what matter. They are what survives.
If we could all drink ourselves to innocence, I’d be guilty. And I mean that in a way that I don’t mean that.
The only constant in our marriage is the edge of the cliff we're hanging on to, killing time until we tire ourselves out and give in to our inevitable collapse.
We are our own worst enemy and make no mistake we are destroying ourselves.
The biggest liar you will ever meet is yourself. It is amazing the lies we tell ourselves because of fear.
If we can keep ourselves from interfering with the natural laws of life, mistakes can be our child's finest teachers.
I decide that we could always indulge ourselves later. First, I had a soul-eating stone of power to poke with a stick.
I wonder if that's how darkness wins, by convincing us to trap it inside ourselves, instead of emptying it out. I don't want it to win.
We must continually remind ourselves that there is a difference between what is natural and what is actually good for us.
As artists give themselves to their models, and poets to their classical pursuits, so must we addict ourselves to prayer.
It is not an external enemy we dread. Our foe is shut up within ourselves. An internal warfare is daily waged by us.
Life is a bunch of 'universal truths', not mine, not anyone else's ...but which exist as a fact..until we 'crack' them for ourselves as 'truths'!
There's more to clothing than just adornment. It does more than merely change how the world perceives us. It changes how we perceive ourselves.
Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used--not on behalf of ourselves, but on behalf of others more helpless.
Leisure is only possible when we are at one with ourselves. We tend to overwork as a means of self-escape, as a way of trying to justify our existence.
Almost every sinful action ever committed can be traced back to a selfish motive. It is a trait we hate in other people but justify in ourselves.
It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from our errors and move on.
