Quotes About Self

You are where you are in life because of what you believe is possible for yourself.

To me, wholeness is the key to aliveness. It is more than just physical vitality, it is radiance, coming from being at one with yourself and your experience. Life then flows through you.

In this, the late afternoon of my life, I wonder: am I casting a longer shadow or is my shadow casting a shorter me?

The consciousness of life is higher than life.

Your whole life is nothing but a dream. You live in a fantasy where everything you know about yourself is only true for you. Your truth is not the truth for anyone else.

My life is more important. At this point in my life I'm alone. I don't think about it a lot.

People always describe my successes in life. My successes in life tend to be personal, not career.

When your life changes and you become a more public person, in some ways you need to be a more closed person, you know?

If an artist is one who spends his life trying to define his being, I guess I would have to call myself an artist.

I never base a character on someone I know. You can get ideas from real life, but every character you write is some aspect of yourself.

I won't say if I'm single or dating or married or divorced. There's boundaries.

There's only one boss in your life . . . and that's you! The person looking back in the mirror at you is the one you have to answer to every day.

My first book really did change my life. It allowed me to fully express myself. There was a sense that I was worth something as an artist.

Life, I fancy, would very often be insupportable, but for the luxury of self compassion.

The true confessors have been aware that not only is life mostly failure, but that in one's failure or pettiness or wrongness exists the living drama of the self.

As you learn to TRUST YOURSELF something miraculous happens. You begin to TRUST THE PROCESS you are living and the miracles life brings!

I don't spend most of my life in front of the media.

And this is the simple truth - that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself to be on firm ground.

It's your life; live it well.

There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes. And I see no divine person. I myself am more divine than any I see I think that is enough to say about them.

Whatever it is that you do in your life, you're your own guide.

Every time I change the way I explain myself to myself, I have to rearrange the story of my life.

From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance.

Real life is the life that's in you, not your circumstances, like where you live or what job you have or who you're in relationship with.