Who Are You?
“It was a long time before she could get to sleep. She kept thinking that no one could understand all the things she understood, and all that was in her.”
--Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace"There lurks in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself."
-- Samuel Johnson"What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us."
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes“I have great faith in fools - my friends call it self-confidence.”
- Edgar Allen Poe“And finally I twist my heart ‘round again so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if…there weren’t any other people living in the world.”
--Anne Frank“I pray, O God, for you to make me beautiful inside.”
--Socrates“Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.”
--Gandhi“We are all worms. But I do believe that I am a glow-worm.”
--Winston Churchill“Insist on yourself. Never imitate.”
--Emerson“All our souls are written in our eyes.”
-- Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac“Become who you are.”
– Nietzsche“I am not what I am.”
--Shakespeare, Othello
“We know what we are, but we know not what we may be.”
–Shakespeare“The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. He frees himself and shows the way to others. Freedom and slavery are mental states.”
– Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi“Cogito, ergo sum.”
(trans. “I think therefore I am”)
--Descartes“Knowing others is wisdom. Knowing self is enlightenment.” –Lao-tzu
“I can pardon everyone’s mistakes but my own.”
–Cato“By throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your head even, you experience them fully and completely. You know what pain is. You know what love is. You know what grief is… Wash yourself with the emotion.”
–Schwartz“A man’s character is his fate.”
--Heraclitus“Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable.”
--Aristotle"You can get around to meaningful conversations more quickly in the dark than with the sun tickling your face."
--Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl"I like to tell people I have the heart of a small boy. Then I say it's in a jar on my desk."
-- Stephen King