"We get so much in the habit of wearing a disguise before others that we
eventually appear disguised before ourselves" Jim Bishop
"No man, for any considerable time, can wear one face to himself and another
to the multitude without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true"
Nathanial Hawthorne
"Maybe taking ourselves for somebody else means that we can not bear to see
ourselves as we are." Albert Brie
"Not until we are lost do we begin to find ourselves" Henry David
Thoreau
"Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they're yours." Richard
Bach, Illusions
"In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible
summer." Albert Camus, Lyrical & Critical Essays
"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."
Marie
Curie
"You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories"
Stanislaw J.
Lec, Unkempt Thoughts
"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some
blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new
day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old
nonsense." Ralph Waldo Emerson, THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR
"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than
the risk it took to blossom. "Anais Nin
"You must do the very thing you think you cannot do." Eleanor
Roosevelt