"I hope not to encounter such a person again on my path who is interested in everything about me except my true self."

"Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul."

"Human nature is so constituted that all see and judge better in the affairs of other people than in their own."

"What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us."

"This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to …"

"You want to be yourself, idiosyncratic; the collective (school, rules, jobs, technology) wants you generic to the poi…"

"Whether you become a daughter, sister, lover, partner, sister-in-law, daughter-in-law, mother, or anything else with …"

"I am tipsy after my own feelings themselves have become wine. I forget myself, world and all."

"The key to self-generated happiness (the only reliable kind) is the refusal to take oneself too seriously."

"People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is s…"