self-discovery Quotes

This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.

Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen.

One is not born a woman, but becomes one.

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.