Being me Quote by Mae West

The part of my brain that was responsible for creating the world I lived and moved in and for taking the raw data that…

— Anonymous

I peered deeper and found my soul. A little tattered and with some holes, but there all the same. It had always been there,…

— Maria V. Snyder

I can't imagine pain greater than stepping across the veil and realizing I had not done what I came here to do - or…

— Sheri L. Dew

It feels like some part of me that was curled down and waiting in the dark has risen, and now stands stretching and strong…

— Elizabeth Berg

Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind, when it has once seized on it, like a lichen on the…

— Mary Shelley

The depth of the feeling continued to surprise and threaten me, but each time it hit again and I bore it...I would discover that…

— Anne Lamott

As I stepped out to face myself in the mirror, reaching a hand to smooth away the steam, I saw myself differently. It was…

— Sarah Dessen

In prayer I was exceedingly enlarged, and my soul was as much drawn out as I ever remember it to have been in my…

— David Brainerd

When I broke my arm, I knew there was something a lot bigger than baseball (about to happen) ... I had a sense that…

— Dave Dravecky

My very existence, my life in the world, seemed like a hallucination. A strong wind would make me think my body was about to…

— Haruki Murakami

“Accumulated knots in the fabric of our body, previously undetected, begin to reveal themselves as we open.”

— Jack Kornfield

I ... had what Kierkegaard called 'the sickness of infinitude,' wandering from one path to another with no real recognition that I was embarked…

— Peter Matthiessen