“True happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.”— Robert Adams
“Thinking is simply the reasoning of the individual, the talking of the self to himself.”— George Herbert Mead
“The self is essentially a social structure, and it arises in social experience.”— George Herbert Mead
“Our perceiving self is nowhere to be found in the world-picture, because it itself is the world-picture.”— Erwin Schrödinger
“Conscience, what art thou? Thou tremendous power! Who dost inhabit us without our leave.”— Joanna Baillie
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.”— Hermann Hesse