1.
To be ourselves causes us to be exiled by many others, and yet to comply with what others want causes us to be exiled from ourselves.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
To be authentic leads to ostracism by many, yet conforming to the desires of others results in alienation from our true selves.
4.
How can I be useful,
of what service can I be? There is something inside me,
what can it be?
Vincent Van Gogh
5.
You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
Gertrude Stein
6.
The life which is not examined is not worth living.
Plato
7.
There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.
Carol Shields
8.
We discover in ourselves what others hide from us and we recognize in others what we hide from ourselves.
Luc de Clapiers
9.
Listen. Make a way for yourself inside yourself. Stop looking in the other way of looking.
Rumi
10.
Come to the Root of the Root of your Self
Rumi