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Quotes About Self (page 28)

To laugh is to risk appearing a fool. To weep is to risk appearing sentimental. To reach out to another is to risk involvement. To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self. To place your ideas and dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss. To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure. But risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. William Arthur Ward
To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love. Love is my true identity. Selflessness is my true self. Love is my true character. Love is my name. Thomas Merton
Nadine Gordimer quote: "Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self"
Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self Nadine Gordimer
None of our hearts are pure, we always have mixed motives. Are self deceivers, but the worst of all. Deceits is to murmur 'Lord, I am not worthy'And, lying easy, turn your face to the wall. Louis MacNeice
For if I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I try to define and to summarize it, it is nothing but water slipping through my fingers. Albert Camus
Marcel Proust quote: "In reality, every reader is, while reading, the reader of his..."
In reality, every reader is, while reading, the reader of his own self. Marcel Proust
That was Youth with its reckless exuberance when all things were possible pursued by Age where we are now, looking back at what we destroyed, what we tore away from that self who could do more, and its work that's become my enemy because that's what I can tell you about, that Youth who could do anything. William Gaddis
There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul. Edith Wharton
Sylvia Plath quote: "Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company."
Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company. Sylvia Plath
Oscar Wilde quote: "The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but..."
The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial. Oscar Wilde
For now she need not think of anybody. She coud be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others... and this self having shed its attachments was free for the strangest adventures. Virginia Woolf
At every moment you choose yourself. But do you choose *your* self? Body and soul contain a thousand possibilities out of which you can build many I's. But in one of them is there a congruence of the elector and the elected. Only one--which you will never find until you have excluded all those superficial and fleeting possibilities of being and doing with which you toy, out of curiosity or wonder or greed, and which hinder you from casting anchor in the experience of the mystery of life,... Dag Hammarskjold
Corita Kent quote: "To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be self..."
To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be self disciplined is to follow in a better way. Corita Kent
Edith Wharton quote: "Is there nowhere in an American house where one may be by..."
Is there nowhere in an American house where one may be by one's self? Edith Wharton
THIS TORTURE Why should we tell you our love stories when you spill them together like blood in the dirt? Love is a pearl lost on the ocean floor, or a fire we can’t see, but how does saying that push us through the top of the head into the light above the head? Love is not an iron pot, so this boiling energy won’t help. Soul, heart, self. Beyond and within those is one saying, How long before I’m free of this torture! Rumi

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