relationship with self

"I am not one and simple, but complex and many."

-Virginia Woolf

"The true self is not created, it is surrendered to.”

— Richard Rohr, The Art of Letting Go

"We forget most of our past but embody all of it." — John Updike

“Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words.” —Carl Jung

“Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?” — Charles Bukowski

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence. -Frederick Douglass

“Someone has a great fire in his soul and nobody ever comes to warm themselves at it, and passers-by see nothing but a little smoke at the top of the chimney and then go on their way.” — Vincent van Gogh

“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more.” -Melody Beattie

“I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here.”

-Charles Bukowski