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Quotes About Self (page 29)

...you aren't just someone I loved back then. You were my best friend, my best self, and I can't imagine giving that up again." He hesitated, searching for the right words. "You might not understand, but I gave you the best of me, and after you left, nothing was ever the same. Nicholas Sparks
Eleanor Roosevelt quote: "There is nothing to fear except fear it's self."
There is nothing to fear except fear it's self. Eleanor Roosevelt
You played it with great seriousness. And it is not such an uncommon game. Do you know Ibsen's poem -- To live it to do battle with trolls in the vaults of the heart and brain. To write: that is to sit in judgement over one's self." Robertson Davies
The self is coming from a state of pure awareness from the state of being. All the rest that comes about in a outward manifesation of the physical world, including fluctuations which end up as thoughts and actions Aldous Huxley
Walker Percy quote: "the self can be as desperately stranded in the transcendence..."
...the self can be as desperately stranded in the transcendence of theory as in the immanence of consumption. Walker Percy
Julian Barnes quote: "But cockteasing is also a metaphor: she is someone who will..."
But cockteasing is also a metaphor: she is someone who will manipulate your inner self while holding hers back from you. Julian Barnes
It is important for this country to make its people so obsessed with their own liberal individualism that they do not have time to think about a world larger than self. Bell Hooks
You and me are real people, operating in a real world. We are not figments of each other’s imagination. I am the architect of my own self, my own character and destiny. It is no use whingeing about what I might have been, I am the things I have done and nothing more. We are all free, completely free. We can each do any damn thing we want. Which is more than most of us dare to imagine. Jean-Paul Sartre
Let me begin now, this very night, to emulate Christ. Cast off forever will be the old self and with it defeat, despair, doubt, and disbelief. To a newness of life I come--a life of faith, hope courage, and joy. No task looms too large; no responsibility too heavy; no duty is a burden. All things become possible. Thomas S. Monson
It was, in part, a longing? common enough among the inventors of heroes? to be someone else; to be more than the result of two hundred regimens and scenarios and self-improvement campaigns that always ran afoul of his perennial inability to locate an actual self to be improved Michael Chabon
The original, shimmering self gets buried so deep that most of us end up hardly living out of it at all. Instead we live out all the other selves, which we are constantly putting on and taking off like coats and hats against the world’s weather Frederick Buechner
Marianne Moore quote: "The self does not realize itself most fully when..."
The self does not realize itself most fully when self-realization is its most constant aim. Marianne Moore
Most timidities have such secret compensations and Miss Bart was discerning enough to know that the inner vanity is generally in proportion to the outer self depreciation. Edith Wharton
Paul Auster quote: "All men contain several men inside them, and most of us bounce..."
All men contain several men inside them, and most of us bounce from one self to another without ever knowing who we are. Paul Auster
Ambrose Bierce quote: "Self-evident, adj. Evident to one's self and to nobody else."
Self-evident, adj. Evident to one's self and to nobody else. Ambrose Bierce

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