„Thinking and self-creating are inseparable. When we become aware of all the fantasies in which we see ourselves in the future, pilot ourselves this way or that, this becomes obvious.“

— Rollo May

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„It is, for example, axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive in our dealings with others, we cannot be aware of it at the time: conscious insensitivity is a self-contradiction.“
— W. H. Auden
„We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking.“
— Richard Rohr
„We dread the future only when we are not sure we can kill ourselves when we want to.“
— Emil M. Cioran
„From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves as a work of art.“
— Michel Foucault