Love Thyself

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. – Buddha

I Feel Pretty

It is what someone thinks of oneself that really determines one's fate. – Henry David Thoreau

 

I Feel Pretty

The secret

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. – Albert Schweitzer

 

Know Thyself, Part Deux

He who knows others

is clever; He who

knows himself is enlightened.

- Lao Tzu

The past is not done with us

When unresolved issues are writing our life story, we are not our own autobiographers; we are merely recorders of how the past continues, often without our awareness, to intrude upon our present experience and shape our future directions. – Daniel Siegel, MD

At break of day...

At daybreak, gazing at the moon,

So alone in the sky,

I finally knew myself all the way.

Nothing now left out. - Izumi Shikibu (10^th century)

Yourself ,.. Completely

Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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Spaceship Earth

Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it. – Buckminster Fuller

US Pavilion, Buckminster Fuller, 1967

It's out there

I know there's an answer
I know now but I had to find it by myself – Beach Boys, I Know There’s an Answer

 

Once again... know thyself

The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.

-Immanuel Kant

It's Alive!!

When you feel most alive, find out why. This is one guest you won't greet twice. - Kabir

Hammock - Breathturn from David Altobelli on Vimeo.

You can control your reactions to other people

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. - Carl Jung

You have the pieces; just assemble the puzzle

Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle. - Lewis Carroll

Know Thyself

The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself. – Confucius

I'm so much older than I can take/

I got soul, but I'm not a soldier