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  • #1
    Joseph Campbell
    “I don’t believe in being interested in a subject just because it’s said to be important. I believe in being caught by it somehow or other.”
    Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

  • #2
    Joseph Campbell
    “I say, follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be.”
    Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

  • #3
    Charlotte Brontë
    “I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.”
    Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

  • #4
    J. Michael Straczynski
    “There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.”
    J. Michael Straczynski, Babylon 5: The Scripts of J. Michael Straczynski, Vol. 2

  • #5
    Michel de Montaigne
    “The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”
    Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

  • #6
    Pema Chödrön
    “The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently.”
    Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

  • #7
    Hermann Hesse
    “We are sun and moon, dear friend; we are sea and land. It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other's opposite and complement.”
    Hermann Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund

  • #8
    Hermann Hesse
    “That is where my dearest and brightest dreams have ranged — to hear for the duration of a heartbeat the universe and the totality of life in its mysterious, innate harmony.”
    Hermann Hesse, Gertrude

  • #9
    Thomas Ligotti
    “To my mind, a well-developed sense of humor is the surest indication of a person's humanity, no matter how black and bitter that humor may be.”
    Thomas Ligotti

  • #10
    Mary Wollstonecraft
    “My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.”
    Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

  • #11
    Mary Wollstonecraft
    “I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.”
    Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

  • #12
    Michael Bassey Johnson
    “If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.”
    Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign

  • #13
    Charlotte Brontë
    “Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! — I have as much soul as you — and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God's feet, equal — as we are!”
    Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

  • #14
    Anaïs Nin
    “I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”
    Anaïs Nin

  • #15
    Anaïs Nin
    “Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows. Man lies in the woman's womb only to gather strength, he nourishes himself from this fusion, and then he rises and goes into the world, into his work, into battle, into art. He is not lonely. He is busy. The memory of the swim in amniotic fluid gives him energy, completion. Woman may be busy too, but she feels empty. Sensuality for her is not only a wave of pleasure in which she is bathed, and a charge of electric joy at contact with another. When man lies in her womb, she is fulfilled, each act of love a taking of man within her, an act of birth and rebirth, of child rearing and man bearing. Man lies in her womb and is reborn each time anew with a desire to act, to be. But for woman, the climax is not in the birth, but in the moment man rests inside of her.”
    Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

  • #16
    Anaïs Nin
    “There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierarchy: the kisses alone don't work.”
    Anaïs Nin, HENRY AND JUNE

  • #17
    Anaïs Nin
    “The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.”
    Anais Nin

  • #18
    Anaïs Nin
    “You cannot save people. You can only love them.”
    Anaïs Nin

  • #19
    Anaïs Nin
    “I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.”
    Anais Nin

  • #20
    Anaïs Nin
    “I often see how you sob over what you destroy, how you want to stop and just worship; and you do stop, and then a moment later you are at it again with a knife, like a surgeon. ”
    Anais Nin

  • #21
    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up knowing which colors went together. We knew that the girls were our twins, that we all existed in space like animals with identical skins, and that they knew everything about us though we couldn’t fathom them at all. We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.”
    Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

  • #22
    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you.”
    Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

  • #23
    Albert Camus
    “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
    Albert Camus

  • #24
    Jane Austen
    “I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.”
    Jane Austen, Persuasion

  • #25
    Marcus Aurelius
    “You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #26
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Make improvements, not excuses. Seek respect, not attention.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #27
    Hermann Hesse
    “So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every glance, every last bit of the body has its secret, which brings happiness to the person who knows how to wake it. She taught him that after a celebration of love the lovers should not part without admiring each other, without being conquered or having conquered, so that neither is bleak or glutted or has the bad feeling of being used or misused.”
    Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

  • #28
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night / The Last Tycoon

  • #29
    Thomas S. Monson
    “When we treat people merely as they are, they will remain as they are. When we treat them as if they were what they should be, they will become what they should be.”
    Thomas S. Monson, Pathways to perfection;: Discourses of Thomas S. Monson

  • #30
    Euripides
    “Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
    Euripides, The Bacchae



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