top of page
.png){kind=small}
"Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self."
Standard
Customized
More
"Just beyond the ticket booth Father had painted on a wall in bright red letters the question: DO YOU KNOW WHICH IS THE MOST DANGEROUS ANIMAL IN THE ZOO? An arrow pointed to a small curtain. There were so many eager, curious hands that pulled at the curtain that we had to replace it regularly. Behind it was a mirror."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Everything that goes into my mouth seems to make me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embarrasses me."
Author Name
Personal Development
"But she finally had the good sense to see that a long, dull and predictable future was an expensive price to pay for the satisfaction of a passing sexual attraction."
Author Name
Personal Development
"For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Behold, behold."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I have enjoyed my company so fondly, I may not feel alone when I am lonely."
Author Name
Personal Development
"If there is wrong [ill] on the inside, the outside will appear wrong. Therefore, you should inquire within 'why am I bothered, when others are not? So there must be wrong within me only."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Go look in the mirror and have a talk with your real boss."
Author Name
Personal Development
"When our thoughts are unsettled and our inner world is in a muddle, we may sharpen our wits and try to recognize the invisible edges of our fractured stance. If we seek to figure out, what our life story is all about, we may be able to put the missing pieces in place and identify what is driving us, what we are actually up to and why we are running like mad dogs, sometimes. ['On a doggy day']"
Author Name
Personal Development
"Would the child you were yesterday admire the person you are today? If not, adjust for desired results."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."
Age
"In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them."
Writing
"Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality."
Friendship
"No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible."
People
"Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another."
Experience
"A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become."
Art
"Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good."
Evil
"Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud."
Fame
"Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do."
Want
"To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?"
Man
bottom of page