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Its time I hear the clockTick tock tick tockGo and killl the bad inner beingIn you soul it has neva been..!!
— B. Bhardwaz
Why are you drinking? - the little prince asked.- In order to forget - replied the drunkard.- To forget what? - inquired the little prince, who was already feeling sorry for him.- To forget that I am ashamed - the drunkard confessed, hanging his head.- Ashamed of what? - asked the little prince who wanted to help him.- Ashamed of drinking! - concluded the drunkard, withdrawing into total silence.And the little prince went away, puzzled.'Grown-ups really are very, very odd', he said to himself as he continued his journey.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
One of the causes of unhappiness among intellectuals in the present day is that so many of them, especially those whose skill is literary, find no opportunity for the independent exercise of their talents, but have to hire themselves out to rich corporations directed by Philistines, who insist upon their producing what they themselves regard as pernicious nonsense. If you were to inquire among journalists in either England or America whether they believed in the policy of the newspaper for which they worked, you would find, I believe, that only a small minority do so; the rest, for the sake of a livelihood, prostitute their skill to purposes which they believe to be harmful. Such work cannot bring any real satisfaction, and in the course of reconciling himself to the doing of it, a man has to make himself so cynical that he can no longer derive whole-hearted satisfaction from anything whatever. I cannot condemn men who undertake work of this sort, since starvation is too serious an alternative, but I think that where it is possible to do work that is satisfactory to man’s constructive impulses without entirely starving, he will be well advised from the point of view of his own happiness if he chooses it in preference to work much more highly paid but not seeming to him worth doing on its own account. Without self-respect genuine happiness is scarcely possible. And the man who is ashamed of his work can hardly achieve self-respect.
— Bertrand Russell
if you think she is amazing, you are the ordinary one ...
— Hera Septyadita
I will win , not immediately.... But Definately...!!!!!!
— Akshay Dalvi
our thoughts have to be accountable to our self
— Stefen Dany
Great self-respect is as often manifested in forbearance as in resentment.
— E.D.E.N. Southworth, Capitola's Peril
Would 'sorry' have made any difference? Does it ever? It's just a word. One word against a thousand actions.
— Sarah Ockler, Bittersweet
Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
— Leonard Cohen, The Favorite Game
One of the most difficult things to think about in life is one’s regrets. Something will happen to you, and you will do the wrong thing, and for years afterward you will wish you had done something different.
— Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
You can run. You can keep running to the ends of the earth. But I won’t be far behind you.”“Ethan—”“No. I will never be far behind you.” He tipped up my chin so that I could do nothing else but look back into his eyes. “Do the things you need to do. Learn to be a vampire, to be a warrior, to be the soldier you are capable of being. But consider the possibility that I made a mistake I regret—and that I’ll continue to regret that mistake and try to convince you to give me another chance until the earth stops turning.
— Chloe Neill, Hard Bitten
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
— C.G. Jung
You were what you were and you are what you are. Fuck that regrets bullshit.
— Irvine Welsh, Porno
One day, perhaps, you will see for yourself that regrets are as nothing. The value lies in how they are answered.
— Steven Erikson, House of Chains
Whenever you lose someone you love, you have those lingering regrets. You wish you could hug them or kiss them or talk to them...I don't want those regrets
— Lisa De Jong, When It Rains
RegretsTiming is irrelevant when two people are meant for each other. It's what I once believed.But we met during a time when I was such a mess, when I still had so much to figure out. How could I have known how crucial every word, every action was or how losing you would be something I would always regret?If only you could have met me now, how different it would be. How much I have changed. How I have grown. I learned so much from all the mistakes I made with you. I just wish I had made them with someone else.
— Lang Leav, Lullabies
I dare say there's many a woman makes as sad a mistake as I have done, and only finds it out too late.
— Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
The brave don't live forever but the cautious don't live at all. The only thing that's truly terrifying is the unlived life.
— Bill See, 33 Days: Touring In A Van.  Sleeping On Floors.  Chasing A Dream.
Personally of course I regret everything.Not a word, not a deed, not a thought, not a need,not a grief, not a joy, not a girl, not a boy,not a doubt, not a trust, not a scorn, not a lust,not a hope, not a fear, not a smile, not a tear,not a name, not a face, no time, no place...that I do not regret, exceedingly.An ordure, from beginning to end.
— Samuel Beckett, Watt
I looked after that Dudley family for too long, over six years. His daddy would take him to the garage and whip him with a rubber hose-pipe trying to beat the girl out a that boy until I couldn't stand it no more.... I wish to God I'd told John Green Dudley he ain't going to hell. That he ain't no sideshow freak cause he like boys. I wish to God I'd filled his ears with good things like I'm trying to do with Mae Mobley. Instead, I just sat in the kitchen, waiting to put the salve on them hose-pipe welts.
— Kathryn Stockett, The Help
One hesitates to open a new chapter when the old one is not resolved.
— Jude Morgan, Indiscretion
In life, I regret the things I didn't do far more than the missteps I made along the way.
— David   Stanley
May posterity show mercy when it look back upon the work we do today. We did what we could with what we had.
— Mira Grant, Blackout
Regrets... Regrets are bootless. A vain trick of the mind. An impotent raging against what cannot be changed anyway. A distraction from the moment.
— Andrew Ashling, The Invisible Chains - Part 3: Bonds of Blood
As sure as this Earth is turnin, souls burnin / In search of higher learnin, turnin in every direction seeking direction / My moms cryin cause her insides are dyin / Her son tryin her patience, keep her heart racin / A million beats a minute, I know I push you to your limit / But it's this game, love—I'm caught up all in it / They make it so you can't prevent it, never give it / You gotta take it, can't fake it, I keep it authentic / My hand got this pistol shakin, cause I sense danger / Like Camp Crystal Lake, and / Don't wanna shoot him, but I got him, trapped / Within this infrared dot, bout to hot him and hit rock bottom / No answers to these trick questions, no time shit stressin / My life found I got ta live for the right now / Time waits for no man, can't turn back the hands / Once it's too late, gotta learn to live with regrets
— Jay-Z
You're right, Norah, anything can happen, anytime. But what goes wrong isn't your fault. You can't spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert disaster. It won't work. You'll just end up missing the life you have.
— Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter
It was becoming more and more evident that Salem was a town that celebrated individuality, a real live-and-let-live kind of place. Melody felt a gut punch of regret. Her old nose would have fit in here."Look!" She pointed at the multicolored car whizzing by. Its black door were from a Mercedes coupe, the white hood from a BMW; the silver trunk was Jaguar, the red convertible top was Lexus, the whitewall tires were Bentley, the sound system was Bose, and the music was classical. A hood ornament from each model dangled from the rear view mirror. Its license plate appropriately read MUTT."That car looks like a moving Benton ad.""Or a pileup on Rodeo drive." Candace snapped a picture with her iPhone and e-mailed to her friends back home. They responded instantly with a shot of what they were doing. It must have involved the mall because Candace picked up her pace and began asking anyone under the age of fifty where the cool people hung out.
— Lisi Harrison, Monster High
Look to the past only to find ways to improve your present and future, never to find regrets. Don’t let what has happened in the past limit your life now. Let your past expand your life.
— Avina Celeste
Sometimes, you can hold a grudge for so long you forget why you were holding onto it. And before you know it, half a lifetime has gone by and all you’ve got is a empty fist and a lot of regret.
— Benjamin Wood, The Bellwether Revivals
Do you have regrets that we were so overwhelmed? Do you ever wish to live those hours over again and differently, with more confidence.
— Anaïs Nin, Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin
I have no regrets because I know I did my best – all I could do.
— Midori Ito
To live without regrets is impossible. To regret not trying is the worst regret of all.
— Gary Rudz
Don't make someone burn, and then try to douse the flames with the things you should have done. Those regrets are gasoline not water.
— Tarryn Fisher, F*ck Love
You should be so lucky to be like me. I allow myself to be disturbed too often. I'll probably end up talking to birds in a park. But you'll probably end up with regrets.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
don't want to regret than don't forget to enjoy
— Pallav Gautam
«Regrets»... I regret how timid and meek I was back then... always telling myself that I couldn't do anything, never even daring to try. That's definitely something I regret. " (p.330)
— Ichigo Takano, Orange: The Complete Collection, Vol. 1
Learn to say " No" without any regrets
— Charmaine J. Forde
Had I known only tells us the regretful stories of yesterday better
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
It’s not the intensity of pain, but the level of stupidness that makes you do things you regret.
— Sarvesh Jain, The Journey of 101 Milestones
If you least understand the essence of timely and courageously saying no to what you have to say no to, when you have to say no, you shall always say yes to what is due no remorsefully and count the cost of never saying no when you had to in pity though you shall know your ‘had I know’ in the end.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
If there's one thing I've learned in life, if there's one rule I live by, it's never to regret what's happened. Understand by all means, but never regret - it's such a devouring pastime and one that leads nowhere.
— Alan Goodwin, Gravitys Chain
If you least understand the essence of timely and courageously saying no to what you have to say no to, when you have to say no, you shall always say yes to what is due no remorsefully and count the cost of never saying no when you had to in pity though shall know your had I know in the end.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
when you really realize how you have lived your life, you indeed realize how you must live your life. It is mostly they that have least time to ponder always who always find time to wonder.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Regrets are a terrible thing to live with but, if we take a good look at them, some are not regrets at all, they’re situations that taught us a valuable lesson. Don’t be so hard on yourself it’s not a perfect world.
— Ron Baratono
You discover you are old when your regrets replace your dreams.
— Jeffrey Fry
While you're deep in something, you never say or do what you need to. It's always after the fact, when it's too late, that you realize what you should've said or done.
— Jennifer L. Armentrout, Opal
When the minds of men slip from realities to fantasies without thinking of the future consequences, then we must ponder. When the hearts of men are entangled with what though might seem great but yet, specious ambitions without pondering over the resulting footprints, then we ought to take precautions. When the hands of men unwittingly and for the sake of self-gratification find the right weapons and dexterity for the wrong purpose, then massacre and cruelties leave indelible footprints of sorrow and bitterness in the hearts of men. We shall always look back to the footprints of yesterday to say had we know if we don’t take a critical look at today’s footsteps. There is always an alternative that is better than good
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The man who let the love of his life pass him by will end up alone with his regrets and all the sighs in the world won't soothe his soul.
— Yasmina Khadra
if you will not always think about the decisions you are taking, you shall always think about the decisions you should have taken in regret, in wonder or in joy. Regrets of the past shall always remain an indelible footprint but the lessons from regrets can always be learned and be used
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Damp veils of mist swirled around them. They were dreadfully cold (Moomintroll thought longingly of his woolly trousers) and surrounded completely by an awful floating emptiness."I always thought clouds were soft and woolly and nice to be in," said Sniff, sneezing. "Ugh! I'm beginning to be sorry I ever came on this expedition.
— Tove Jansson, Comet in Moominland
Regrets are for wusses.
— Jen Calonita, There's No Place Like Home
You’ll finally realize the importance of the spark of that diamond when you lost it.
— RSCruz
Shit. The mind gets up to funny tricks, doesn't it? Shadows grow faces.
— Stephen King, Just After Sunset
One of the most difficult things to think about in life is one's regrets. Something will happen to you, and you will do the wrong thing, and for years afterward you will wish you had done something different.
— Lemony Snicket, The Reptile Room
Look forward, not back," the Hag said. "All is change. Do not regret. Instead, learn.
— Juliet Marillier, Raven Flight
I will tell you this my darlings, the very worst regrets are the things you couldn't have handled any other way.
— Jamie  Mason, Monday's Lie
He had no idea about the 'loving deeply' part. Scarlet was the one love he'd had. They'd married the weekend after they'd discovered they both like sangria. He'd thought they were waltzing through life and it turned out she was line dancing.
— Jodi Thomas, One True Heart
All this silence between us, to protect her, and what has it wrought! How unthinking I was,” he cringed as he beat himself up inside.
— K. Farrell St. Germain, Then'diel's Song
Try to live with as few regrets as you can short of zero. A life with no regrets at all was never really lived.
— D.X. Logan
I'm a terrible person. I should have stayed in college. I should have gone skydiving while I had the chance. I should have gone swimming with dolphins. I should have seen The Spice Girls perform on their reunion tour!
— Jillianne Hamilton, Molly Miranda: Thief for Hire
I choose to believe that my father is still alive, that he has survived death, outlived us all, and possesses the soul that goes on and lives forever; We just cannot see him yet, for we have not caught up with him. our time will come just as his did. and no matter how woeful and lost I was when he passed away, I know I will be glad to go to a place where I can see him, and know he is okay and happy. It’s just not my time yet and there is no way of knowing if any of it is true." - Jane Adams
— Noorilhuda, The Governess
My one regret was that I never photographed the bat before we drank it.
— A.S. King, Glory O'Brien's History of the Future
Warlock: Four thousand and fifty-three metric tons of inert rock, metal and organic matter, frozen solid.Quasar: Frozen in what?Drax: Time.Quasar: "Time", Drax?Drax: Uh-huh. Old, old frozen time.Quasar: Right. And that tastes like what?Drax: Regret.
— Dan Abnett, Guardians of the Galaxy, Volume 1: Legacy
We don't have to be defined by the things we did or didn't do in the past. Some people allow themselves to be controlled by regret.Maybe it's a regret, maybe it's not. It's merely something that happened. Get over it.
— Pittacus Lore
we lived depravityand called it truth, silencingour dreaming, andour love, discardingthings holy.
— John Daniel Thieme, paulinskill hours and other poems
Looking back, my greatest regret is not that I didn't love them enough (to the brink of insanity and back again), but that I couldn't save them from themselves.
— Bailey Vincent, The Details of How We Lived
In life, you would regret definitely, either you become good person or the bad one, but being good is better to regret for"-Samar Sudha
— Samar Sudha
I have knots in my years that I can`t undo, and this is one of the worst--the night I did wrong and Mauma got caught
— Sue Monk Kidd
Regret is a commonality that all humans share, I myself have many. Through out my life I have made many mistakes some little and some infinite. There are those you can change and those that change you. Regardless, its all really just woulda, shoulda, coulda. We do the best we can and mistakes are only lessons in disguise. I will flow through this life like water until I reach the sea of contentment and then all will be well......
— J.S. Riley
I won't say anything that I will regret tomorrow
— wish
Can't release her? The air caught in my chest, hardened, and refused to move. There was a good chance I wasn't making it out of this basement. The craziest thing I had ever done was ride some insane roller coaster at Cedar Point--and now that seemed like no big deal. I'd never been out of the country. Never played with my unborn niece.Never made amends with my parents and sister since our continued fighting began almost eight months earlier.
— Skye Callahan, Irrevocable
Your ability to discern key people in your life and organization before you bring them in saves you lots of time, trouble, and regrets... Watch out!!!
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
the ache became longing, longing became nostalgia, nostalgia became fondness, and after a while he could see the funny side of it. A long while.
— Charlaine Harris
She could have lived every minute she'd had with him better. She should have always spoken the best words she could to him.
— Veronica Rossi, Into the Still Blue
You know what I regret the most?” Trinity says, her voice just above a whisper.	I don’t answer. All I can think about is how crappy it is that my fourteen-year-old sister already has regrets.
— Paula Stokes, Infinite Repeat
On my solemn oath, Edmund, I'd gladly face not having an acre of land to call my own, nor a penny in the bank, I'd be willing to have no home but the poorhouse in my old age, if I could look back now on having been the fine artist I might have been.
— Eugene O'Neill, Long Day's Journey Into Night
Regrets will eat a man up. My pa told me that. Said you should always try to make your peace when you can, 'cause no man knows what the Lord has in store for us tomorrow.
— R.S. Belcher, The Six-Gun Tarot
Sometimes, laughing like a lunatic can be the best solution. Or crying loudly into a pillow. But don't regret anything. Always tell yourself "I. Regret. Nothing." because really, no matter how sucky, or crappy your life gets, you really shouldn't regret it. Everything you do makes yourself up, and kid, just do the right thing every now and then, and you'll be good. We. Regret. Nothing.
— Victoria Estrada
What haunts me far more than anything I’ve ever done are the things I haven’t done.
— Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing
Regrets are particularly poignant for the old, those of us who have used up most of the chances we'll ever get and are left to make peace with our failed choices. Most things distance themselves with space and time to eventually slide off the edge of our consciousness, but not regrets. You can shove them aside, disavow them for a lifetime, but they always return. And the longer you deny them, the more they punish you when they can no longer be held at bay.
— Lionel Fisher, Celebrating Time Alone: Stories Of Splendid Solitude
Neglected dreams become regrets.
— Stephen Richards, Success is Only One Thought Away: Motivational and Inspirational Quotes from Mind Power Professional Stephen Richards
Dirck's thoughts wandered to Creena. It was a good thing she wasn't there or she'd die, too. He shuddered to think of how she'd feel when she got back and everyone was dead. He'd never see her again and there was so much he wanted to tell her. Now he'd never have a chance.
— Marcha A. Fox, A Dark of Endless Days
It's amazing how, over the course of one's life, you collect so much music you don't like, so many movies you don't watch and so many books you have no intention of reading. If only regret stopped with the trivial things such as these.
— Ellie Rose McKee
Is there such a thing as a life without any regrets? I’ve never believed so. We spend our lives aiming for happiness and fulfilment in work, in love and with our friends and family, and yet often our energy is spent lamenting bad boyfriends, wrong career turns, fallouts with friends and opportunities missed. Or is that just me? I admit I’m naturally a glass-half-empty kind of girl, but I know regrets are a burden to happiness and I’m trying to let go of them because I’ve learned that it’s all about choice. You can choose to turn regrets into lessons that change your future. Believe me when I say I’m really trying to do this. But the truth is, I’m failing. Because all I can think right now is: maybe I deserve it. Maybe this is my penance.
— Ali Harris, The First Last Kiss
Dead ButterflyBy Ellen BassFor months my daughter carried a dead monarch in a quart mason jar. To and from school in her backpack, to her only friend’s house. At the dinner table it sat like a guest alongside the pot roast. She took it to bed, propped by her pillow. Was it the year her brother was born? Was this her own too-fragile baby that had lived—so briefly—in its glassed world? Or the year she refused to go to her father’s house? Was this the holding-her-breath girl she became there? This plump child in her rolled-down socks I sometimes wanted to haul back inside me and carry safe again. What was her fierce commitment? I never understood. We just lived with the dead winged thing as part of her, as part of us, weightless in its heavy jar.
— Ellen Bass
was coming to that troubled twilight time, a time of regrets that resemble hopes, of hopes that resemble regrets, when youth is past but old age has not yet come.
— Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
She concluded that to be able to live without regrets, one has to let go of life that one has planned to give space to life which has been destined.
— Madhu Vajpayee, Seeking Redemption
The only thing equal to the enormity of his want was his regret.
— Molly Ringwald, When it Happens to You
As much as he loathed himself for it, he couldn't stop thinking about Abigail. If he hadn't met her, he might be married to someone else. Some nice woman who didn't throw dishes at him. He'd be asleep right now, lying on his side with her warm body snuggled up against his chest, and their children--yes, he was quite sure there would have been two or three of them--would be sound asleep in the next room dreaming of sugarplums or whatever kids dreamed about. If he hadn't met Abigail, he certainly wouldn't be stuffed like a slab of meat in the back of a car with his own executioners.
— J.S. Bailey, Rage's Echo
I was watching when the Enforcers arrived. I saw them go into Rosa’s. There were so many I’d never have gotten close enough to do anything. I could hear them talking about what they’d do to you as they went in and I thought I’d lost you.” His palm presses against my cheek, stroking away stray strands of hair, “Eve, I’ve never been so scared. The thought that I’d never get to see you again, to apologise for the way I treated you, I couldn’t bear it. When they dragged you out I was so relieved, knowing that I had a chance to get you back.” He squeezes me tightly against his body as he admits, “I can’t lose you Eve. Them taking you made everything so clear. I love you and I thought I wasn’t going to get the chance to prove how much. I couldn’t let that happen.
— Angela Louise McGurk, Absolution
People's most common regret was living the life others expected of them, rather than having the courage to live a life true to themselves, and realising some dreams had gone unfulfilled as a result.
— Bianca Nogrady, The End: The Human Experience Of Death
Forward momentum. That's my new motto. No regrets. And no going back.
— Gayle Forman, Just One Day
Did not one spend the first half of one's days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?
— Émile Zola, The Joy of Life
It’s amazing how long we put up with things we detest for the sake of a quiet life.
— Tami Egonu, A Rhapsody of Dreams
Empty night, Harry. Didn't your little adventure in the lake teach you a damned thing?"I scowled some more. "Like what?""Like life is short," he [Thomas] said. "Like you don't know when it's going to end. Like some things, left unsaid, can't ever be said.
— Jim Butcher, Cold Days
I knew your face before your heart, I saw your pain right from the start A stunning sight I won’t forget, Tears that flowed out of regret,   So take your time and take your spaceI’ll be here while you navigate My love for you alone will wait My love for you alone will wait   You captured me before I knew A rare reward, a heart so true How could it be with just one look, My world was changed, my love unhooked   So take your time and take your space I’ll be here while you navigate My love for you alone will wait My love for you alone will wait   I only want to see you freed Outside the walls you cannot see So break away from debts not yoursReceive the grace that's been out-poured   So take your time and take your space I’ll be here while you navigate My love for you alone will wait My love for you alone will wait”Deese, Nicole (2013-01-22). All For Anna (Letting Go) (p. 234-235). . Kindle Edition.
— Nicole Deese, All for Anna
How strange that something so simple could have been instrumental in my decision to ruin one of my most relationships and friendships, and damage another.
— Veronica Roth, Insurgent
[When I die], I will decidedly not be regretting missed opportunities for a good time. My regrets will be more along the lines of a sad list of people hurt, people let down, assets wasted and advantages squandered.
— Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Regret is the sound of the ghosts of our own making. I will live with mine until I die.
— T.A. Webb
Always regret the things you did do, never the things you didn't.
— Dorothy Koomson, The Cupid Effect
I lay on the bed and shut my eyes, thinking that nobody really likes marriage, that it's a flawed arrangement, that people get enthusiastic and jump in for a hundred reasons and then, after the ceremony, after a few years, the whole deal turns into a concert they wouldn't have dreamed of attending.
— Frederick Barthelme, Elroy Nights
No regrets. There is no time for that. Regret is boring.
— A.R. Rahman
I’ve found the things I’ve regretted most in my life are the things I wanted to do but never had the courage to try. And I’m beginning to think I don’t want you to become one of my what-if-I’d-only-tried-it regrets.
— Linda Kage, A Fallow Heart
When I leave her, I will have few regrets. But those that I have, are magnificent.
— Caedem Marquez, A Boyfriend Before Christmas
I wanted to laugh. Or maybe get mad. Or maybe shrug at how strange everyone was, especially me.
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
— Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
— Francis Bacon
Commandment #1: Believe in yourself. Commandment #2: Get over yourself.
— Kristan Higgins
Deep down within the heart there is a stillness which is healing, a trust in the universal laws which is unwavering, and a strength which is rock-like. But because it is so deep we need both patience and perseverance when digging for it.
— Paul Brunton, The Notebooks of Paul Brunton
How much more infinite a sea is man? Be not so childish as to measure him from head to foot and think you have found his borders.
— Mikhail Naimy, The Book of Mirdad: The Strange Story of a Monastery Which Was Once Called the Ark
I saw myself.... In the time I watched, I saw strength—and frailty. Pride and vanity, courage and fear. Of wisdom, a little. Of folly, much. Of intentions, many good ones; but many more left undone. In this, alas, I saw myself a man like any other. But this, too, I saw.... Alike as men may seem, each is different as flakes of snow, no two the same. You told me you had no need to seek the Mirror, knowing you were Annlaw Clay-Shaper. Now I know who I am: myself and none other. I am Taran.
— Lloyd Alexander, Taran Wanderer
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
— Bruce Lee
Men forget where the way leads and what they meet with every day seems strange to them.We should not act and speak like men asleep.
— Heraclitus
I admire how she protects her energy and understands her limitations.
— Terry Tempest Williams, Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
Understand that when the beast within yousucceeds again in paralyzing into unendingincompletion whatever you again had the temerity totry to makeits triumph is made sweeter by confirmation of itsrectitude. It knows that it aloneknows you.
— Frank Bidart, Star Dust
Knowledge of what you love somehow comes to you; you don’t have to read nor analyze nor study. If you love a thing enough, knowledge of it seeps into you, with particulars more real than any chart can furnish.
— Jessamyn West
In the months after the relationship ends, a person can seem to grow at a lightning rate, like in a nature documentary where weeks of footage is run at high speed to show a plant unfurling in seconds, but in reality the person has been growing all along, under the surface, and it is only in their new freedom, in their hair-raising aloneness, that the person can allow for these underground things to break through and unfurl themselves in the light.
— Nicole Krauss, Forest Dark
The one who says he doesn't understand anything about art, doesn't know himself.
— Jostein Gaarder
He has to come to it on his own.
— Justin Cronin, The Passage
What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.
— Seneca, Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium: Latin Text
When we suspect that we are appropriate targets for hurt, it does not take much for us to believe that someone or something is out to hurt us
— Alain de Botton, The Consolations of Philosophy
Are you indoctrinated?Think of anything you believe in be it religious or social, like economic systems or systems of government, etc., and think if you had ALL the information about what you believe in, and ALL the information about all the other/rival systems, and remember if you chose to adopt the one or the other by critical thinking or objective reasoning…No? …
— Haroutioun Bochnakian, The Human Consensus and The Ultimate Project Of Humanity
All outdoors may be bedlam, provided there is no disturbance within.
— Seneca
There is an easy way to measure our inner levels of abjectness and friendliness to ourselves: we should examine how well we response to noise.
— Alain de Botton, The Consolations of Philosophy
The immediate result of abandoned idealism is an embittered and drained man, whether he realizes it or not, whether he likes it or not. He is capable of acting in his own interest, but only to the extent that those interests coincide with those of the lowest animals.
— Mike Klepper
Why has no one come to pry me out of here?- Cersei
— George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows
I spent a long time in the study of the abstract sciences, and was disheartened by the small number of fellow-students in them. When I commenced the study of man, I saw that these abstract sciences are not suited to man, and that I was wandering further from my own state in examining them, than others in not knowing them. I pardoned their little knowledge; but I thought at least to find many companions in the study of man, and that it was the true study which is suited to him. I have been deceived; still fewer study it than geometry. It is only from want of knowing how to study this that we seek the other studies. But is it not that even here is not the knowledge which man should have, and that for the purposes of happiness it is better for him not to know himself?
— Pascal
The curve of man’s knowledge of himself ascends until the 17th century, declines gradually afterwards, in this century it finally plummets
— Nicolás Gómez Dávila
I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to know better.
— Frida Kahlo
We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge--and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves--how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves?
— Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals/Ecce Homo
I want to know who I am before it is too late—before I am no longer the same person—before I become someone different. Although there are days when this seems a furious race against time, there are others when it seems to matter not a tinker's curse.
— Alan Bradley, Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd
There is pleasure in reading a version of myself I know in my heart could never exist, since mine is not an iron mind coldly calculating every possible option and outcome. Instead I am a businessman who loves excitement, loves tension, loves risk and the unexpected, and just happens to possess an extraordinary, on occasion even miraculous, degree of good luck.
— Jacob Wren, Rich and Poor
Our spirits rose after a few beers, all that lay between us during the day, the silences that could develop from nowhere, the irritation that could set in, the sudden inability to find areas of common interest, even though there were so many, all of that vanished as our spirits soared and we felt the concomitant warmth: we looked at each other and knew who we were.
— Knausgaard, Karl Ove
Life so far seemed like a kind of dance to him, and he was pleased to discover that he was pretty good at it. Lf there was something hollow underneath it all, a well of fear that sometimes seemed to pull everything else into it and leave him clutching the stone rim for fear of falling into himself, well, that was part of being human, he supposed. That's what the booze was for.
— Nathan Ballingrud, The Visible Filth
Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God. Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to say, true sound wisdom consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.
— John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 Vols
At the end of your life there will be many people you won't be acquainted with.Make sure you are not among them.
— Luigina Sgarro
In other living creatures ignorance of self is nature
—  in man it is vice.
Ignorance of ourselves must be folly.
— A.L.O.E., The Haunted Room: A Tale
For all my wanderings, I'm ordinary. I came to terms long ago with my littleness. A man is what he is--he can't rise so much as an inch above his shortcomings--Horatio Alger be damned!
— Norman Lock, American Meteor
If I follow a particular method of knowing myself, then I shall have the result which that system necessitates; but the result will obviously not be the understanding of myself.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti, The First and Last Freedom
There is a correlation between the severity of a person’s moods and a lack of self-knowledge.
— Jill Alexander Essbaum, Hausfrau
...[T]he whole undertaking of philosophical inquiry requires a prior understanding of the conceptual system in which the undertaking is set. That is an empirical job for cognitive science and cognitive semantics. ... Unless this job is done, we will not know whether the answers philosophers give to their questions are a function of the conceptualization built into the questions themselves.
— George Lakoff, Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought
The knowledge of ourselves, therefore, is not only an incitement to seek after God, but likewise a considerable assistance towards finding him.
— John Calvin, A Compend of the Institutes of the Christian Religion
The greatest of empires, is the empire over one's self.
— Publilius Syrus
How was I to be a scientist, father Lion?' Science is knowing. What could I have known? Others always did the knowing, knew what was in me, what should come out of me, what was best for me. I didn't know who I was, what I wanted. I know less now, and I am afraid.
— Russell Hoban, The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz
I had never thought much of genealogy. A lot of wasted time collecting the names of the dead. Then stringing those names, like skulls upon a wire, into an entirely private and thus irrelevant narrative, lacking any historical significance. The narcissistic pastime of nostalgic bores.
— Joshua Ferris, To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
To know oneself means above all to know what one likes
— Marty Rubin
Self-Knowledge is the Jewel of all Knowledge."-Serena Jade
— Serena Jade, Charismatic Connection: The Authentic Soul Mate Experience
The interdependent couple is the new setting and their knowledge of Self is an ancient treasure."-Serena Jade
— Serena Jade, Charismatic Connection: The Authentic Soul Mate Experience
Learn whom God has ordered you to be, and in what part of human affairs you have been placed.
— Persius, The Satires of Persius
Much of the work of midlife is to tell the difference between those who are dealing with their issues through you and those who are really dealing with you.
— Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge: the serenity to accept the things we cannot predict, the courage to predict the things we can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
— Nate Silver, The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't
I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once and cannot add up the sum.
— C.G. Jung
To know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks.
— Flannery O'Connor
Recognizing who you are is not the subtext of a life. It's the main point.
— Kiana Davenport, House of Skin: Prize-Winning Stories
Applicants for wisdomdo what I have done:inquire within
— Heraclitus, Fragments
Without self-knowledge you have no root in yourselves personally; you may endure for a time, but under affliction or persecution your faith will not last. This is why many in this age (and in every age) become infidels, heretics, schismatics, disloyal despisers of the Church. They cast off the form of truth, because it never has been to them more than a form. They endure not, because they never have tasted that the Lord is gracious; and they never have had experience of His power and love, because they have never known their own weakness and need.
— John Henry Newman, Parochial and Plain Sermons [Complete]
I believe I’m very normal. I’m hyper-normal. I’m more normal than anyone else I know. I think my thoughts, my indulgences, my desires, my pleasures may at first appear different, but that is only because they are more normal, not because they are more esoteric.I believe I am bored when other people are bored, only faster. I am interested when others are interested, only more interested. But I also think I’m less, rather than more, intelligent than other people.By indulging my interests through my life, and perhaps because of rather than despite many failures, I have been able to design my life.
— Richard Saul Wurman, Information Anxiety 2
Throughout human history beauty has been seen as a gift from God, but Mom had another notion; she thought that beauty could be earned through self-knowledge. It may be a revolutionary idea, but it has offered me great comfort.
— Ruth Reichl, Not Becoming My Mother: and Other Things She Taught Me Along the Way
History is for human self-knowledge…the only clue to what man can do is what man has done. The value of history, then, is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.
— R.G. Collingwood
A person without her or his own truth ain't a person at all, Ida said. Anybody who tells you different—is a jackass, and no longer deserves to be called human being.
— Tom Spanbauer, The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon
The view is endlessly fulfilling. It is like the answer to a lifetime of questions and vague cravings.
— Don DeLillo
Nah. I'm a tough cookie. Except for the cancer, I'm fine.
— Lisa Scottoline, Every Fifteen Minutes
the world wasn't made for us, we were made for the world
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
Support Group featured a rotating cast of characters in various states of tumor-driven unwellness. Why did the cast rotate? A side effect of dying.
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
I really thought she was going to die before I could tell her that I was going to die, too.
— John Greem
You can see a person's whole life in the cancer they get.
— Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Tobin," Mom said disapprovingly. She wasn't a particularly funny person. It suited her professionally - I mean, you don't want your cancer surgeon to walk into the examination room and be like, "Guy walks into a bar. Bartender says, 'What'll ya have?' And the guy says, 'Whaddya got?' And the bartender says, 'I don't know what I got, but I know what you got: Stage IV melanoma.
— John Green, Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances
I’ll give you my strength if I can have your remission.
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
Man, it was a good thing vampires didn't get cancer. Lately he'd been chain-smoking like a felon.
— J.R. Ward, Lover Unbound
Cancer seems a high price to pay for an innocuous-looking habit. You get into smoking and you are robbed of the last 25 years of your life. Some cocky souls will say, 'Ah yes, but they are the worst 25 years.' Nobody feels like that in a cancer ward. There are no cocky souls in a cancer ward. But there's a lot of pain, not just of the excruciating physical kind that they shoot you full of morphine to smother. There are a lot of tears. All round. It is hard to say goodbye to the people you love. And it's scary. Cancer wards have a way of knocking the cockiness out of you. And for what? Another cigarette?
— Tony Parsons
work. play. passion.
— Jim Clark, Making Friends with Candy
It's like they say about soldiers coming back from war. People all around you are dying. Really dying, Eric. You go in for a week's chemotherapy and you're in a ward with people who are really, actually dying, there and then and doing their best to come to terms with it. When the week's up, you go home and you see your family and your friends and everything's normal and familiar. It's too much. You think - one world can't possibly hold both these lives and you feel like you're going to go crazy when you realise the world is that big and it can fill with the most terrible things whenever it wants to.
— Steven Hall, The Raw Shark Texts
It was Disney World fused with Cancerland.
— Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
The best way to deal with 'Change' is to lead it!
— Clifford L. Feightner, Lynn's Story
Everest attempt at sixty-two, three weeks after undergoing surgery for kidney cancer, marathon des Sables six months after it was amputated fingers and toes, be measured by the diagonal of Fools four weeks after ablation of a metastasis to the lung, is this possible? Cancer does not stop your life, giving up your dreams or your goals, it is simply a parameter to manage, no more, no less than all the other parameters of life.How to ensure that the disease becomes transparent to you and your entourage, almost insignificant in terms of trip you want to accomplish? This is precisely the question that Gerard Bourrat tries to answer in this book. To make a sports performance, to live with her cancer, to live well with amputations, the path is always the same: a goal, the joy of effort, perseverance and faith.This book does not commit you to climb Everest, to run under a blazing sun, walking thousands of miles, it invites you to conquer your own Everest.
— Gérard Bourrat, L'éverest, Le Cancer, La Vie
Apple and apricot seeds contain a vitamin called B12, which I found to be illegal to sell in pharmacies. Now, this is very interesting. You can buy all kind of vitamins in pharmacies, but not B12. Why in the hell would the pharmaceutical industry make a vitamin that we can eat on our own, through seeds, illegal? I asked this question to employees in the pharmacies and many doctors, and they couldn't answer. They just kept looking at me as if I was trying to get ingredients to make my own synthetic drugs. For most people, what is illegal is really illegal. Most people are too stupid to think for themselves, even when my question is so obvious that they seem to have brain damage not to realize the relevance of such question.
— Robin Sacredfire
For all malignant cancers, both fish eaters and vegetarians and vegans combined had significantly lower mortality than regular meat eaters [HR: 0.76 (95% CI: 0.63, 0.91) and HR: 0.82 (95% CI: 0.72, 0.94), respectively]. Vegetarians and vegans combined also had significantly lower mortality than did regular meat eaters for pancreatic cancer [HR: 0.47 (95% CI: 0.26, 0.86); P-heterogeneity = 0.065] and cancers of the lymphatic/hematopoietic tissue [HR: 0.43 (95% CI: 0.27, 0.70)], and low meat eaters had significantly lower respiratory disease mortality than regular meat eaters [HR: 0.69 (95% CI: 0.49, 0.97); P-heterogeneity = 0.14].
— Paul Appleby
For specific causes of death, compared with regular meat eaters, low meat eaters had ~30–45% lower mortality from pancreatic cancer, respiratory disease, and all other causes of death, fish eaters had ~20% lower mortality from malignant cancer and ~20% higher circulatory disease mortality, and vegetarians and vegans had ~50% lower mortality from pancreatic cancer and cancers of the lymphatic/ hematopoietic tissue. These findings were essentially unchanged on further adjustment for BMI, and generally were robust across categories of sex, smoking, and BMI for the 6 most common causes of death.
— Paul Appleby
There is general agreement that red meat consumption increases the risk of colon or colorectal cancer. This was the only food association with cancer that was labeled ‘‘convincing’’ in the recent report from the World Cancer Research Fund, American Institute for Cancer Research (42). The evidence, of course, largely came from studies of meat consumption in nonvegetarians, although data from Adventist vegetarians in California concur (43).
— Gary E. Fraser
Although protein deficiency is widespread in poverty-stricken communities and in some nonindustrialized countries, most people in industrialized countries face the opposite problem—protein excess. The RDA for a 70-kilogram (154-pound) person is 56 grams; however, the average American man consumes approximately 100 grams of protein daily, and the average woman about 70 grams. Many meat-loving Americans eat far more protein. Some research suggests that high protein intake contributes to risk for heart disease, cancer, and osteoporosis. However, because high protein intake often goes hand-in-hand with high intakes of saturated fat and cholesterol, the independent effects of high protein intake are difficult to determine.
— Melissa Bernstein, Nutrition
Diverging results for types of dairy products and sources of calcium suggest that other components of dairy than fat and calcium may increase prostate cancer risk. Additional prospective studies are needed on types of dairy products and various sources of calcium in relation to risk of subtypes of prostate cancer and, in particular, advanced and fatal cancers.
— Dagfinn Aune
In contrast to the positive associations for total and dietary calcium, there was no association with intake of nondairy calcium. This result might have suggested that other components of dairy products than calcium contribute to [prostrate cancer] risk.
— Dagfinn Aune