(41 quotes found)
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
Oscar Wilde
“Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.”
August Wilson
“The final mystery is oneself.”
“I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.”
“I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.”
Pietro Aretino
“I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.”
Jane Austen
“We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.”
Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
“When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what world calls a romance.”
“i smoke and i drinkand every time i blink i have a tiny dreambut as bad as i am i'm proud of the factthat i'm worse than i seem”
Ani Difranco