#yours

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there. ↗

— Meister Eckhart

#being #cover #covering #depths #forty

Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others. ↗

— Charles William Eliot

#cannot #choking #commandment #develop #development

Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity. ↗

— Richard L. Evans

#courage #feel #great #keep #opportunity

By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#after #communication #critics #form #gave

We've all got to look at ourselves, start with yourself, that's all you can do. I believe that we can act responsibly as a group, it's just that there are vested interests telling us not to bother. ↗

— Ben Elton

#believe #bother #got #group #i

You can't think about things you want to change. Just be yourself. ↗

— Ethan Embry

#be yourself #change #just #just be #just be yourself

You may feel powerless as a child, but the world will one day be yours. And you're responsible for it. So, seize the day and take charge of it. ↗

— Harvey Fierstein

#child #day #feel #may #one day

Real change isn't found in some new way to think about yourself, but in freedom from the need to think about yourself at all. ↗

— Guy Finley

#change #found #freedom #freedom from #need

Supply yourself with a mental equivalent, and the thing must come to you. ↗