The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.Virginia Woolf
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.Richard Feynman
What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.Voltaire
Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.Friedrich Nietzsche
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.Nelson Mandela
He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.Buddha
