“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.” – Anna Quindlen
self awareness
No Running Away ~ Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Song of Myself ~ Poem by Walt Whitman (Verse 1)
Song of Myself (Verse 1)
Walt Whitman
I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
I loafe and invite my soul,
I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.
My tongue, every atom of my blood, form’d from this soil, this air,
Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their parents the same,
I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin,
Hoping to cease not till death.
Creeds and schools in abeyance,
Retiring back a while sufficed at what they are, but never forgotten,
I harbor for good or bad, I permit to speak at every hazard,
Nature without check with original energy.
Today’s Quote on Self Awareness
WE are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves.
Hazlitt.
Today’s Quote by Hazlitt on Self Awareness
WE are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves.
Hazlitt.
