self
“You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.”
“He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.”
“At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.”
“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
“Someday, somewhere—anywhere, unfailingly, you’ll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.”
“Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.”
“Become who you are!”
“One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.”
“No one can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life.”
“He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster.”
“And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.”
“One ought to look a good while at oneself before thinking of condemning others.”
“You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
“We become what we behold. We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.”
“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
“We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves.”
“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
“If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.”
“Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.”
“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”