Sara Teasdale Quotes

The biggest parts of healing and making myself whole is to accept all of the many parts of myself.

First, my people must be taught the knowledge of self. Then and only then will they be able to under-stand others and that which surrounds them. Anyone who does not have a knowledge of self is considered a victim of either amnesia or unconsciousness and is not very competent. The lack of knowledge of self is a prevailing condition among my people here in America. Gaining the knowledge of self makes us unite into a great unity. Knowledge of self makes you take on the great virtue of learning.

On the vaporization and the centralization of the Self. All is there.

Every day I have many choices to make about who I want to be.

But there isn't any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It's there. I'm already whole.

Maybe one day I can have a reunion with myself.

It only seems that there is something more important for you to do than to just quietly be yourself.

Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.

I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

I came to love, I came into my own.

It took me several years to figure out who I am and a few more to accept what I discovered. Now, I'm in the enjoyment stage of that process and it's a happy place.

I want to stop transforming and just start being.

We are all the same person trying to shake hands with our self.

I've fully embraced who I am. I stopped fighting with people and just come to realize, 'This is me. This is all of me.'

We need to see, and agree that what we seek already lives within us, and we within it. Now we know our one great task: watch for whatever promises us freedom, and then quietly, consciously refuse to see ourselves through the eyes of what we know is incomplete. Then we live wholeness itself, instead of spending our lives looking for it.

I have to live with both my selves as best I may.

From ancient times, the core idea of the soul is the soul is the capacity to integrate different functions into a single being or into a single person. The soul is what holds us all together: what connects our will and our minds and our bodies and connects us to God.

My goal is to make space for my selfhood. All of it. All of me, not just the parts I like or think that others like but all of it.

I can hardly find the words to describe the peace I felt when I was acting. My dysfunctional self could actually plug in to another self, not my own, and it felt so good. It was the first time that I existed inside a fully-functioning self - one that I controlled, that I steered, that I gave life to.

I just want to figure out me and grow within myself.

Once you really know yourself, can't nobody tell you nothing about you.

I feel more comfortable with myself now. I don't know if I feel sexier. I feel more whole.

I'm happy about who and what I am - and I can't wait to find out who I'll be tomorrow.

I know who I am. And after all these years, there's a victory in that.