Yourself - Quotes
Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.
If you want to save her
Then first you have to save yourself
If you want to free her from the hurt
Don`t do it with your pain
If you want to see her smile again
Don`t show her you`re afraid
Because your circle of fear is the same
According to Jung, a stranger can see in an instant something in you that you might spend years learning about yourself. [...] How awful we all are when we look at ourselves under a light, finally seeing our reflections. How little we know about ourselves. How much forgiveness it must take to love a person, to choose not to see their flaws, or to see those flaws and love the person anyway. If you never forgive you`ll always be alone.
It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.
Do not ask yourself if your love is big enough, because love is neither big nor small, it is simply love.
Darling, when things go wrong in life, you lift your chin, put on a ravishing smile, mix yourself a little cocktail.
Tomorrow, you promise yourself, will be different, yet, tomorrow is too often a repetition of today.
You aren`t afraid of throwing yourself in the path of danger, but you`re terrified of letting anyone in.
When you judge another, you do not define that person, you define yourself.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
Love, true love, is always fatal. What I mean is, it does not aim at happiness, at an idyll, at a hand-in-hand eternity of sentimental walks under flowering lime trees, with a gentle light burning on the veranda behind, the house swimming in cool scents. Life can be that, but not love. Love burns with a fierce, more dangerous flame. One day you discover a desire in yourself to encounter this all-consuming passion.
If you can`t tell the truth to the people you care about the most, eventually you stop being able to tell the truth to yourself.