I avoid looking down at my body, not so much because it’s shameful or immodest but because I don’t want to see it. I don’t want to look at something that determines me so completely.

If ever asked to look at yourself, don't.

A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.

Avoid fixating on irrelevant details.

I don't focus on what I'm up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.

I no longer wish to look at dead things.

I mustn't look at you too much, or I won't be able to take my eyes off you at all.

Do not become so attached to any one belief than you cannot see past it to another possibility.

Decide now that you will not spend your precious energy speculating about someone else's life and how it compares with yours.

I mean not try to analyze everything to death for once, if possible, especially me.

A terrible thing happened to you, but you mustn't let it define your life.

Don't get too attached to anything.

My idea was to chose an object that wouldn't attract me, either by its beauty or by its ugliness. To find a point of indifference in my looking at it, you see

Maybe I don't want to be defined by what I do. Maybe I'd like to be defined by what I am.