The only thing I had to give was me.

Il faut se prêter à autrui et ne se donner qu'à soi-même.

Could love be giving your own solitude to another? Because that's the ultimate thing you can give of yourself.

i can only

give to you

what i have already

given to myself

i can only

understand

the world as much as

i understand myself

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

I surrendered myself to the cages of others' expectations, cultural mandates and institutional allegiances. Until I buried who I was in order to become what I should be. I lost myself when I learned how to please.

When I give, I give myself

When you made me into another, I left you with me.

I could only be who it seemed I had to be.

I’ve given myself away, the whole of me, every part.

I cannot come to be fully human unless I have received myself as a gift and accepted myself as a gift of somebody who has, as we say today, distorted me the way you distorted me by loving me.

Here then is the secret: You must give yourself, if you desire to find yourself. "Give up thy life if thou wouldst live." Give up the small life, the petty life, the mean life, the restricted life, the little personal life which shuts you in - give it up and follow the light of the Star within you.

I am really only myself when I’m somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.

I'll not abandon myself. Not ever again. Me and myself: We are till death do us part. We'll forsake all others to remain whole. I unbecame a woman who believed that another would complete me when I decided that I was born complete.