Self Awareness

"If you want to be found, stand where the seeker seeks." -Sidney Lanier ...

“Be yourself” is about the worst advice you can give some people. - Tom Masson ...

"We believe in a personal, unique, and separate identity — but if we dare to examine it, we find that this identity depends entirely on an endless collection of things to prop it up: our name, our “biography,” our partners, ...

"How much larger your life would be if your self could become smaller in it; if you could really look at other men with common curiosity and pleasure; if you could see them walking as they are in their sunny ...

"To be nobody but yourself in a world doing it's best to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human can ever fight and never stop fighting" - E. E. Cummings ...

"Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors."                    - Ludwig van Beethoven ...

“...before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.” - Atticus, To Kill a Mockingbird ...

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” - Winston Churchill ...

"You hold the answers deep within your own mind. Consciously, you've forgotten it. That's the way the human mind works. Whenever something is too unpleasant, too shameful for us to entertain, we reject it. We erase it from our memories, ...

"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after."           - Henry David Thoreau ...