If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours – it is an amazing journey – and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.
I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.
The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best.
Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew.
Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already am. That I will never fulfill my obligation to surpass myself unless I first accept myself, and if I accept myself fully in the right way, I will already have surpassed myself.
I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is.
You have to take me for me. I am who I am.
Only as high as I reach can I grow Only as far as I seek can I go Only as deep as I look can I see Only as much as I dream can I be.
For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Sometimes the only way to ever find yourself is to get completely lost.
Close your mouth, block off your senses, blunt your sharpness, untie your knots, soften your glare, settle your dust. This is the primal identity.
Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable. You are you, I am I. I have to contribute my potential to life; you have to contribute your potential to life. I have to discover my own being; you have to discover your own being.
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
Everything I’m not makes me everything I am.
We are constantly invited to be who we are.