Quotes Tagged "self-containment"

I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.
Tags: solitude, self-trust, self-sufficiency, self-respect, self-reliance, self-esteem, self-determination, self-containment, self-awareness, self-assurance, individuality, independence, empowerment, defiance, ataraxy
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Tags: solitude, self-trust, self-sufficiency, self-respect, self-reliance, self-esteem, self-determination, self-containment, self-awareness, self-assurance, inspirational, individuality, independence, ataraxy
Maybe your country is only a place you make up in your own mind. Something you dream about and sing about. Maybe it's not a place on the map at all, but just a story full of people you meet and places you visit, full of books and films you've been to. I'm not afraid of being homesick and having no language to live in. I don't have to be like anyone else. I'm walking on the wall and nobody can stop me.
— Hugo Hamilton The Speckled People: A Memoir of a Half-Irish Childhood
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This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart is the temple. Your philosophy is simple kindness.
Tags: self-containment, religion, kindness