No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
-Thomas Mann
I see when men love women, they give them but a little of their lives. But women, when they love give everything.
-Oscar Wilde
To understand oneself profoundly, one needs balance. Neither renunciation nor acquiescence.
All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe