Self Quotes

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Jess C. Scott
“Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay.”
Jess C Scott, EyeLeash: A Blog Novel

K.L. Toth
“One of the greatest tragedies in life is to lose your own sense of self and accept the version of you that is expected by everyone else.”
K.L. Toth

“The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.”
Robert Hand

Anthony Marra
“We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more than wolves. But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are.”
Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

Idowu Koyenikan
“Today is a new day and it brings with it a new set of opportunities for me to act on.
I am attentive to the opportunities and I seize them as they arise.
I have full confidence in myself and my abilities.
I can do all things that I commit myself to.
No obstacle is too big or too difficult for me to handle because what lies inside me is greater than what lies ahead of me.
I am committed to improving myself and I am getting better daily.
I am not held back by regret or mistakes from the past.
I am moving forward daily.
Absolutely nothing is impossible for me.”
Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability

Omar Khayyám
“As far as you can avoid it, do not give grief to anyone. Never inflict your rage on another. If you hope for eternal rest, feel the pain yourself; but don’t hurt others.”
Omar Khayyám, رباعيات خيام

Marvin Gaye
“If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.”
Marvin Gaye

D.W. Winnicott
“It is a joy to be hidden, and disaster not to be found.”
D.W. Winnicott

Toba Beta
“I don't judge people.
It blurs out the center of my attention,
my focus,
myself.”
Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident], Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

Vera Nazarian
“A fine glass vase goes from treasure to trash, the moment it is broken. Fortunately, something else happens to you and me. Pick up your pieces. Then, help me gather mine.”
Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

Oscar Wilde
“In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.”
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Ayn Rand
“Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.”
Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

Joan Didion
“We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were.”
Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

John Berger
“Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.”
John Berger

“The deeper I go into myself the more I realize that I am my own enemy.”
Floriano Martins

Jandy Nelson
“Maybe a person is just made up of a lot of people," I say. "Maybe we're accumulating these new selves all the time.”
Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

Shannon L. Alder
“Feelings are something you have; not something you are.”
Shannon L. Alder

Karl Lagerfeld
“Don't look to the approval of others for your mental stability”
Karl Lagerfeld

J. Krishnamurti
“We carry about us the burden of what thousands of people have said and the memories of all our misfortunes. To abandon all that is to be alone, and the mind that is alone is not only innocent but young -- not in time or age, but young, innocent, alive at whatever age -- and only such a mind can see that which is truth and that which is not measurable by words.”
J. Krishnamurti

Octavio Paz
“Beyond myself, somewhere,
I wait for my arrival.”
Octavio Paz, The Collected Poems, 1957-1987

“I feel the need to endanger myself every so often.”
Tim Daly

Alan W. Watts
“Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social enviornment.”
Alan Wilson Watts, The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

Brennan Manning
“Silent solitude makes true speech possible and personal. If I am not in touch with my own belovedness, then I cannot touch the sacredness of others. If I am estranged from myself, I am likewise a stranger to others.”
Brennan Manning, Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

O.R. Melling
“To run with the wolf was to run in the shadows, the dark ray of life, survival and instinct. A fierceness that was both proud and lonely, a tearing, a howling, a hunger and thirst. Blessed are they who hunger and thirst. A strength that would die fighting, kicking, screaming, that wouldn't stop until the last breath had been wrung from its body. The will to take one's place in the world. To say 'I am here.' To say 'I am.”
O. R. Melling

Charles Bukowski
“the worst thing," he told me,
"is bitterness, people end up so
bitter.”
Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense