You're a Genius all the time
Jack Kerouac..Imam Ali [A]..
'However knows himself (his soul or spirit) knows [or has known] his Lord
Tags: soul self spirit knowing lord quotes know known knows ali a imam
There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.
Jean-Jacques RousseauTags: change self humorous personality personal-development flexibility
The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times.
Henry JamesTags: truth greatness self expectations occasion
I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind’s door at 4 a.m. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends. We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were. I have already lost touch with a couple of people I used to be…
Joan DidionTags: self joan-didion on-keeping-a-notebook
Depression is not generalized pessimism, but pessimism specific to the effects of one's own skilled action.
Robert M. SapolskyTags: self depression pessimistic
The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?
Oscar WildeIt's what's buried deep inside that frightens me because it's broken, like a shattered mirror.
Jessica SorensenTags: soul self mirror scared frightened inside broken shattered ella jessica-sorensen
Those stories tended to be located around the places where things went wrong, and people were cruel to one another, and so on. They reflected what was probably the most urgent truth operating in me at that time: oh, shit, things can go wrong, and if they do, people get hurt, and I might be one of them, in spite of the fact that I am, you know, me.
George SaundersTags: truth stories self cruelty going-wrong
We seem to be unable to resist overstating every aspect of ourselves: how long we are on the planet for, how much it matters what we achieve, how rare and unfair are our professional failures, how rife with misunderstandings are our relationships, how deep are our sorrows. Melodrama is individually always the order of the day.
Alain de BottonTags: life relationships self significance sorrows melodrama
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