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  • You become aware of an illness by understanding yourself and understanding the meaning that that illness has in your own life, symbolically and, more importantly, quite literally.

    Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. September 30, 2009.
  • That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.

    Twitter post from Apr 19, 2016
  • Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

    Intentions "The Critic as Artist" pt. 2 (1891)
  • There's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.

    Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.114, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.

    'Biographia Literaria' (1817) ch. 12
  • The pain of leaving those you grow to love is only the prelude to understanding yourself and others.

  • Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

  • If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow -- you are not understanding yourself.

    Bruce Lee, John Little (1997). “Jeet kune do: Bruce Lee's commentaries on the martial way”, Tuttle Publishing
  • Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

    "The Critic as Artist". Book by Oscar Wilde, 1891.
  • To be beautiful means to be yourself.You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. When you are born a lotus flower, be a beautiful lotus flower, don't try to be a magnolia flower. If you crave acceptance and recognition and try to change yourself to fit what other people want you to be, you will suffer all your life. True happiness and true power lie in understanding yourself, accepting yourself, having confidence in yourself.

  • After all, without understanding yourself, what basis have you for right thinking?

  • Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

  • Self-acceptance begins in infancy, with the influence of your parents and siblings and other important people. Your own level of self-acceptance is determined largely by how well you feel you are accepted by the important people in your life. Your attitude toward yourself is determined largely by the attitudes that you think other people have toward you. When you believe that other people think highly of you, your level of self-acceptance and self-esteem goes straight up. The best way to build a healthy personality involves understanding yourself and your feelings.

  • Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

    Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc
  • It's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience.

  • I knew that our time together was almost over, I asked her if she liked sports, she asked me if I liked chess, I asked her if she liked fallen trees, she went home with her father, the center of me followed her, but I was left with the shell of me, I needed to see her again, I couldn't explain my need to myself, and that's why it was such a beautiful need, there's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.

    Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.113, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

    "Coco Chanel : Her Life, Her Secrets". Book by Marcel Haedrich, 1971.
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