Yourself Quotes (page 111)

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• alone
• manly
• you me

I am not quite sure of being a man: I never found it very difficult. It seemed to me that you had only to let yourself alone. Jean-Paul Sartre

• wishes
• knowing
• backed

When all you wanted. Was to be wanted. Wish you could go back. And tell yourself what you know now Taylor Swift

• world
• growing old
• old

The easiest thing in the world is to convince yourself that you're right. As one grows old, it is easier still. Robert Ludlum

• drinking
• personality
• hot

You know you're a hot mess when the only person buying you drinks all night is yourself. Chelsea Handler

• magic
• acceptance
• money

He had also learned that the sick and unfortunate are far more receptive to traditional magic spells and exorcisms than to sensible advice; that people more readily accept affliction and outward penances than the task of changing themselves, or even examining themselves; that they believe more easily in magic than reason, in formulas than experience . . . They would much rather pay in money and goods than in trust and love. They cheat one another and expect to be cheated themselves. You had... Herman Hesse

• god
• look
• you me

Look down at me and you see a fool, Look up at me and you see a god, Look straight at me and you see yourself. Charles Manson

• hug
• acceptance
• embraces

So be who you really are. Embrace who you are. Literally. Hug yourself. Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer. Ellen DeGeneres

• simple
• value
• everything

Put a higher value on yourself. Being hyper-realistic about everything is too simple a get-out. J. G. Ballard

• sea
• mind
• mindfulness

It’s one of those unpleasant opioid feverish half-sleep states, more a fugue-state than a sleep-state, less a floating than like being cast adrift on rough seas, tossed mightily in and out of this half-sleep where your mind’s still working and you can ask yourself whether you’re asleep even as you dream. And any dreams you do have seem ragged at the edges, gnawed on, incomplete. David Foster Wallace

• she
• you me
• liking

Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me. Carlos Fuentes

• help
• helpful
• helped

I can't help you if you won't help yourself. Amy Winehouse

• fire
• setting
• could

You shouldn't do that," said Laura. "You could set yourself on fire. Margaret Atwood

• kindness
• keep
• maintain

If you're going to maintain any kind of self-respect, you're going to have to keep secrets from yourself. David Eddings

• work
• life
• bed

Only soldiers and labouring men can appreciate how glorious it really is to lie late in bed in winter-time. When your life revolves around having to to be at work at seven o'clock in the morning you know everything about that ghastly lep up still half asleep and the rush to put your head under a tap of ice-cold water with the barbarous object of shocking yourself awake. Maurice Chevalier

• love
• disappointment
• believe

If you believe in love, you're setting yourself up to be disappointed. Candace Bushnell