I can maintain my sense of the sacredness of existence only by understanding my own limitations and losing my self-importance..
Your subconscious mind makes all your words and actions fit a pattern consistent with your self-concept and your innermost beliefs about yourself..
I began to write poetry again in 1975, when I fell in love with another woman. I returned to poetry not because I had “become a lesbian”—but because ….
...one of the worst things about being a parent, for me, is the self-discovery, the being face to face with one's secret insanity and brokenness and ….
In your whole life nobody has ever abused you more than you have abused yourself. And the limit of your self-abuse is exactly the limit that you will….
The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. ….
Maybe being married is talking to oneself with one's other self listening..
Self-evidently, dangerous climate change will not emerge from a normal scientific process of truth seeking..
In the half darkness I winked to my other self, my mad dictator, and congratulated him on his droll victory. I closed my eyes and felt the warmth flo….
Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self: in which case, it is best that the garment be loose, a little ….
If you're up there [on stage] thinking about what you're doing, you're just not there and it's not going to happen.So trying to learn how to overcome….
To look for total satisfaction in oneself is a futile endeavor. Since everything changes from moment to moment, where can self and where can satisfac….
Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities..
The problem a lot of writers have is that they really, really enjoy people saying, "You're brilliant." They let their self-perception be dictated by ….
Too many people think that "good manners" are about subjugating yourself to others. Not true. Respect, and just as important, self-respect are two ke….
I have had to give up so much, so many selves and lives already. I have grown up and out of the rubble of my old lives, of things and people I have c….
Being a vegan is a first-world phenomenon, completely self-indulgent..
Be proud of your scars. They have everything to do with your strength, and what you've endured. They're a treasure map to the deep self..
Music exists when rhythmic, melodic or harmonic order is deliberately created, and consciously listened to, and it is only language-using, self-consc….
Actors, who should pride themselves on their singularity, are forever trying to be someone else. It isn’t necessary for you, the actor, to like yours….
I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the oth….