My favorite quotes

Let the world know you as your are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you? Fanny Brice The questions which one asks oneself begin, at last, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others. One can only face in others what one can face in oneself. On this confrontation depends the measure of our wisdom and compassion James Baldwin My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been. Diane Arbus Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to manifest the glory of God within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. Marianne Williamson And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. Anais Nin Saintliness is also a temptation. Jean Anouilh I want to be alone .I just want to be alone. Greta Garbo Take your life into your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. Erica Jong The events in our lives happen in a sequence of time, but in their significance to others, they find their own order..in a continuous thread of revelations. Eudora Welty