self
“Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?”
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.”
“I am a part of all that I have met.”
“And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.”
“To thine own self be true.”
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
“What you seek is seeking you.”
“The only journey is the one within.”
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves.”
“To be great, be whole.”
“Everything interests me, but nothing holds me.”
“I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.”
“I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.”
“A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.”
“To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.”
“Give me the man who can command his temper.”
“I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching for someone who would change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.”
“In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.”
“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”