Relationship with self

One of the great benefits of writing down the events in your life is that you will begin to see your existence as a grand story.

“Rebecca Solnit put it much the same way…: ‘I suspect that the mind, like the feet, works at about three miles an hour. If this is so, then modern life is moving faster than the speed of thought.’ In other words, thoughts – or souls – can get left behind if their hosts move too quickly

“Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.” — Rollo May, “Man’s Search for Himself”

If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it. —Meditations 12.17

The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts. —Meditations 5.16

The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts. —Meditations 5.16

You may leave this life at any moment: have this possibility in your mind in all that you do or say or think. —Meditations 2.11

“There is always a philosophy for lack of courage.” — Albert Camus, “Notebooks (1942–1951)”

“That was all a man needed: hope. It was a lack of hope that discouraged a man.” — Charles Bukowski, “Factotum”

“"Anxiety about what one feels might also be seen as the spread, and the vulgarization, of the Romantic “quest for personality.” Such a quest has not been conducted in a social vacuum; it is the conditions of ordinary life which have propelled people into this Romantic search for self-realization. Further, it has been beyond the scope of literary s