Arsenal Quote by Sean Penn

“Each day can be richer and more meaningful if we can be happy with ourselves. Some of the most undesirable feelings are those of…

— George I. Cannon

The gift of self cannot be given to us. It is an incomparable gift that has already been given. We have possessed it from…

— Gerry Spence

“Self-cherishing and self-grasping are different aspects of one mind. Self-grasping grasps at an inherently existent ‘I’, and self-cherishing believes that such an ‘I’ is…

— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

...to be a poet, requires a mythology of the self. The self described is the poet self, to which the daily self (and others)…

— Susan Sontag

“One must possess many gifts … which have not been acquired by one’s own effort. And, moreover … the artist must possess the courageous soul.”

— Kate Chopin

Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabric of fictions…

— Dan Chaon

“As we apprentice ourselves to the way of nature, we begin to understand that all of life is in a continuous cycle of giving…

— Toko-pa Turner

“We each carry with us unique gifts, recognized and unrecognized. We long to harness those gifts in a way that gives life significance and…

— Tom Hayes

“The self is also a creation, the principal work of your life, the crafting of which makes everyone an artist.”

— Rebecca Solnit

Within ourselves we all have the gifts and talents we need to fulfill the purpose weve been blessed with.

— Steve Maraboli

It's a rare gift, you know, to feel reverence for your own life and to want the best, the greatest, the highest possible, here,…

— Ayn Rand

Life is a gift, not to possess, but to share.

— Henri Nouwen