1. 20 July 2009
    “You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you.”
    Rwandan Proverb

    proverb self struggle

  2. 14 July 2009
    “We are our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.”
    Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

    book dragons self rescue hero

  3. 02 July 2009
    “…I have this strange feeling that I’m not myself anymore. It’s hard to put into words, but I guess it’s like I was fast asleep, and someone came, disassembled me, and hurriedly put me back together again. That sort of feeling.”
    Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

    book distance self detachment

  4. 26 May 2009
    “You start out life with a clean slate. Then you begin to make your mark. You face decisions, make choices. You keep moving forward. But sooner or later there comes a time when you look back over where you have been … and wonder who you really are.”
    Daniel Stern, The Wonder Years 

    tv life self decision

  5. 24 May 2009
    “Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.”
    Miguel de Cervantes

    self struggle

  6. 20 May 2009
    “Sometimes I wish that I was the weather, you’d bring me up in conversation forever. And when it rained, I’d be the talk of the day.”
    John Mayer

    self

  7. 10 May 2009
    “Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thing was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.”
    Anthony Robbins

    self change

  8. 30 March 2009
    “He got the better of himself, and that’s the best kind of victory one can wish for.”
    Miguel de Cervantes

    self struggle

  9. 10 March 2009
    “I’m a stranger wherever I go because I’m strange to myself. My mind just goes off doing it’s own thing, never consulting me at all about whether it’s all right to feel this way or that. I am constantly standing several feet away from myself, watching as I do or say or feel something that I don’t want or don’t like at all, and I still can’t stop it.”
    Elizabeth Wurtzel

    detachment self

  10. 28 January 2009
    “He steps into the mirror, refusing to be anyone else.”
    Frank O’Hara

    authenticity self