Self

"Big things in the glory of the world mean nothing. Small things in glory of God mean everything. Truly..., size doesn't matter in this world or in the world to come."

"Yesterday i was clever so i took the glory for me. Today HE makes me wise so i give the glory to HIM."

"IIA grief without a pang, void, dark, and drear,      A stifled, drowsy, unimpassioned grief,      Which finds no natural outlet, no relief,          In word, or sigh, or tear — O Lady! in this wan and heartless mood,To other thoughts by yonder throstle woo'd,      All this long eve, so balmy and serene,Have I been gazing on the western sky,      And its peculiar tint of yellow green:And still I gaze — and with how blank an eye!And those thin clouds above, in flakes and bars,That give away their motion to the stars;Those stars, that glide behind them or between,Now sparkling, now bedimmed, but always seen:Yon crescent Moon as fixed as if it grew In its own cloudless, starless lake of blue;I see them all so excellently fair,I see, not feel how beautiful they are!III          My genial spirits fail;          And what can these avail To lift the smothering weight from off my breast?          It were a vain endeavour,          Though I should gaze for ever On that green light that lingers in the west:I may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within."

"I used to think that if I were a certain kind of person I would spend all my time creating something beautiful. Well, it turns out I am, and I am."

"When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful."

"Change is not change without changing Your Self first by changing the external factors of yourself, for darkness cannot glow in the light"

"When, at last, I ceased to be myself, I came to be."

"People are always changing themselves and their world, dear. Very few of the changes are new. We rather confuse change and newness, I think. What is truly new never changes."You speak in riddles, aged progenitor."The world worships a certain kind of newness. People are always talking about a new car, or a new drink or p-p-play or house, but these things are not truly new, are they? They begin to get old the minute you acquire them. New is not in things. New is within us. The truly new is something that is new forever: you. Every morning of your life and every evening, every moment is new. You have never lived this moment before and you never will again. In this sense the new is also the eternal."

"When you compare yourself against someone else, you always lose."

"The human mind’s innate ability to imagine and create ensures that we never remain stalled out in who we are. We constantly seek to amend our circumference and circumstances, craft and redraft our emotional, social, political, economic, and artistic being."

"The human will be the only mammal in history to fully understand that its own self inflicted extinction is well underway."

"You know that smell, when you put your nose up to a pine tree" I told her I did perfectly. "No matter how long it has been, you always will. Like you are storing a part of that tree in your own body. ... Everything stays true. You are yourself, no matter how much you have to change."

"...by the time we understand the pattern we are in, the definition we are making for ourselves, it's too late to break out of the box. We can only live in terms of the definition, like the prisoner in the cage in which he cannot lie or stand or sit, hung up in justice to be viewed by the populace. Yet the definition we have made of ourselves is ourselves. To break out of it, we must make a new self. But how can the self make a new self when the selfness which it is, is the only substance from which the new self can be made?"

"To be always what I am - and so changed from what I was."

"I am in a spot where I can neither be what I always am nor turn into what I could be."

"To have been always what I am - and so changed from what I was."

"Sometimes, being true to yourself means changing your mind. Self changes, and you follow."

"There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character."

"I don't have a lot of patience for stories in which women are rescued by men."

"It’s the angle. You can’t see me from where you’re standing."