Joan Didion
Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs. ― Joan Didion, “On Self-Respect.” (1968)
Category: Self-discovery
Hermann Hesse
“When someone is seeking,” said Siddartha, “It happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he is unable to find anything, unable to absorb anything, because he is only thinking of the thing he is seeking, because he has a goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking… Continue reading Hermann Hesse
Shannon L. Alder
It is better to be alone than to become a person that loses his soul to the fear of loneliness. ― Shannon L. Alder
Shannon L. Alder
Somewhere between love and hate lies confusion, misunderstanding and desperate hope. ― Shannon L. Alder
Shannon L. Alder
The most introspective of hearts tends to be the most sentimental. We cling to the smallest moments from our past because we fear that emotion will never come our way again. ― Shannon L. Alder
Sogyal Rinpoche
When we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense of the fragility and preciousness of each moment and each being, and from this can grow a deep, clear, limitless compassion for all beings. — Sogyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Book… Continue reading Sogyal Rinpoche
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If I love you, what business is it of yours? ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship. Bk. IV, Ch. 9. (Johann Friedrich Unger [Berlin] 1795–1796)
