Yourself - Quotes
Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.
I do take my work seriously and the way to do that is not to take yourself too seriously.
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it.
The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
When you`re lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost. For the longest time, you can convince yourself that you`ve just wandered a few feet off the path, that you`ll find your way back to the trailhead any moment now. Then night falls again and again, and you still have no idea where you are, and its time to admit that you have bewildered yourself so far off the path that you dont even know from which direction the sun rises anymore.
I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.
There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself.
There are times in life when you gotta crawl
Lose your grip, trip and fall
When you can`t lean on no one else
That`s when you find yourself.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.