Self Quotes
Tony DeLiso
Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens
1741 Melissa De La Cruz
You cannot be with someone just because you don’t want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about.
3261 Marvin Gaye
If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.
2987 Aniekee Tochukwu
Hang out with successful people and you'll acquire success characters
1907 Simona Panova
Even I don’t know myself... In fact, I don’t know if I really have a self at all, as I’m constantly playing different roles and pretending – not so much on stage as in real life...
3020 Walt Whitman
To drive free, to love free, to court destruction with taunts. One brief house of madness and joy!
1834 Norbert Harms
You will never find your way, by keeping doors closed.
3831 Michael Adzema
A crucial element of the real self is its unconditional acceptance of itself.
1511 Ernest Hemingway
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
4376 Jess C. Scott
I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.
1881 Jess C. Scott
A fit, healthy body - that is the best fashion statement
1687 David Levithan
Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.
2811 Jess C. Scott
V-Day…if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for “your loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love.
2512 Jess C. Scott
My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism.
2982 Jess C. Scott
Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay.
4590 Tony DeLiso
Happiness is part of who we are. Joy is the feeling
1971 Brian Tracy
Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.
2959 Allan Rufus
Your inner strength is your outer foundation
1093 May Sarton
We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.
4860 Mary Anne Radmacher
I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.
4927 John Berger
Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
1762 Deepak Chopra
Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity.
2400 Ram Mohan
Fall in love.. that is fine, but just make sure you fall deep enough to stay there forever.
1705 C. JoyBell C.
It is when you lose sight of yourself, that you lose your way. To keep your truth in sight you must keep yourself in sight and the world to you should be a mirror to reflect to you your image; the world should be a mirror that you reflect upon.
2494 Helen Keller
What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me.
2632 Jess C. Scott
I was flipping channels, watching this cheerleading program on MTV. They took a field hockey girl and “transformed” her into a cheerleader by the end of the show. I was just wondering: what if she liked field hockey better?
2502 Jess C. Scott
Anya looked upon Nin admirably. Having him as a partner-in-crime - if only on this one occasion, which she hoped would only be the start of something more - was more revitalizing than the cheap thrills of a cookie-cutter shallow, superficial romance, where the top priority was how beautiful a person was on the outside.
1481 Steven J. Carroll
You can always tell the heart of man by what he do, and by what he don't do...
2045 N.K. Jemisin
You are what your creators and experiences have made you, like every other being in this universe. Accept that and be done; I tire of your whining.
4524 Rumi
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
3364 Aaron Cohen
Happiness is attained, not through self-interest, but through unconditional fidelity in endless love of eternal light.
4864 Amaka Imani Nkosazana
Simple minded people do things like gossip, lie, spread rumors, and cause troubles. But, I know you're more intelligent.
4381 Roman Payne
When I touched her body,
I believed she was God.
In the curves of her form
I found the birth of Man,
the creation of the world,
and the origin of all life.
2557 Chitralekha Paul
And people turn to internet with the hope that in this virtual world, where real identity need not be disclosed, they will find someone before whom they could be their true self,without any pretensions and get an opportunity to release the pent-up emotions and feel light.
1569 C. Elizabeth
Listen to your inner self, it knows you best.
4276 Alain De Botton
One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?
3315 Jonathan Price
Remember yourself. Deep inside, you have an observer, a constant neutral witness to your posture, gesture, facial expression, breathing, taste, impressions of light and sound. Don't leap to interpret. Just be there and observe.
2003 Tennessee Williams
Byron: The luxuries of this place have made me soft.The metal point's gone from my pen, there's nothing left but the feather.
Gutman:That may be true.But what can you do about it?
Byron:Make a departure.
Gutman:From yourself?
Byron:From my present self to myself as I used to be!
Gutman:That's the furthest departure a man could make!
3224 Marguerite Yourcenar
The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books, and to a lesser degree schools.
2394 Ram Mohan
Never delete but save the numbers of your enemies.. so that it helps you avoid them better.
3575 Ram Mohan
The ones who appear to be unemotional are in real the most emotional ones.
3738 Ram Mohan
If something hurts you, be happy that you have a heart that hurts.
4297 Ram Mohan
Consider everyone trustworthy until they prove otherwise.
3855 Ram Mohan
If you cannot value a commitment made by someone else, your own commitments lose their value too.
3550 Ram Mohan
Two people of similar nature can never get along, it takes two opposites to harmonize.
2696 Ram Mohan
People do not have the power to change situations, situations have the power to change people though.
1054 Vivian Amis
Everything you experience is a blessing and pushes you toward realizing your true self.
4516 Ram Mohan
There are just two things that can make you famous.. being noble or notorious.
1831 Lolly Daskal
Where we fall are the stepping-stones for our journey.
4868 Lolly Daskal
The difference between impossible and possible is a willing heart.
4699 Lolly Daskal
Purpose drives the process by which we become what we are capable of being.
3932 Donna Tartt
It's not about outward appearances but inward significance. A grandeur in the world, but not of the world, a grandeur that the world doesn't understand. That first glimpse of pure otherness, in whose presence you bloom out and out and out.
A self one does not want. A heart one cannot help.
1997 Etty Hillesum
Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it toward others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will also be in our troubled world.
3295 Johnathan Jena
True, lasting peace comes not through stamping out the ignorance of others, but through cultivating acceptance with ourselves.
3823 Ram Mohan
Leave if you must. But leave when you are strong, not weak. Leaving should be a choice and not the only option.
3425 Ram Mohan
After bearing the consequences of a mistake, the person either becomes a better person or completely succumbs to the atrocity.
2493 Ram Mohan
People tend to take things spoken as a joke seriously and things spoken seriously as a joke.
4018 Bill Courtney
Only by entering new and unfamiliar worlds can a person change society as well as self.
2972 Joyce Carol Oates
And remember: you must not overwork your body, or your soul. You must not enslave yourself, as you would not enslave any other person. You must be the custodian of your self.
4629 Patricia Highsmith
But there were too many points at which the other self could invade the self he wanted to preserve, and there were too many forms of invasion: certain words, sounds, lights, actions his hands or feet performed, and if he did nothing at all, heard and saw nothing, the shouting of some triumphant inner voice that shocked him and cowed him.
1778 Joseph Campbell
You don't ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don't ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don't ask what you mean. You enjoy it.
1594 Norbert Harms
A Leader has no ego, but is followed by some, who become less, and less, and less.
4620 Norbert Harms
Pursue Change, by starting to think different. Achieve Change, by doing things different!
2586 Norbert Harms
If you want to listen, don't talk.
If you want to talk, listen first.
3759 Norbert Harms
There's never a better time, to make a decision, than right now. And if you feel you'd better made another decision, then make that decision now, and if you can't decide, just make a decision, because you can always make a new decision.
4815 Norbert Harms
Apparently, there are many roads which lead to Rome, but there is sure just one road, which leads to success, and that is the road of courage. Depending on what attributes you take with you on that road,will determine, however, the time it will take you to reach success.
4545 Norbert Harms
It always starts with people's disbelieve in other, because of their own shortage in visualising.
When success had followed the one with the vision about, envy will haunt the people, without.
4815 Norbert Harms
Many people listen, but never hear, some hear only what they want to hear. A few people but listen, because they want to hear, and then they understand, they needeed to listen.
4043 Norbert Harms
The power of giving, is greater than the joy of receiving
3471 Norbert Harms
A wise man accepts defeat, a fool accepts to defeat
3462 Norbert Harms
Liberty does not hold back on ignorance, nor will arrogance insinuate equal
1170 Norbert Harms
it doesn't matter, if you're on a dirt road, just follow it, you'll hit some asphalt again
3479 Norbert Harms
There is nothing in your life, worth enough, not doing it.
2808 Zhuangzi
To forget the whole world is easy; to make the whole world forget you is hard.
2137 James A. Michener
Being goal-oriented instead of self-oriented is crucial. I know so many people who want to be writers. But let me tell you, they really don't want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they had a book in print. They don't want to go through the work of getting the damn book out. There is a huge difference.
3892 Vivian Amis
To think is to have doubt....yet even thinking will bring you to "no thought"....eventually.
4674 Alain De Botton
Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.
3736 Kandi Dougherty
This time around I was so lonely that I was forced to be face to face with myself. Realizing at the end of the day I only have me and I didn't seem to like my own company. I decided to I had to make myself into someone I can live with.
4912 Litymunshi
once you meet your own self-effortlessly you can expand your best qualities to the outer world.
3686 Shujoy Chowdhury
hide your feelings, hide you thoughts, hide your self from the world but dont hide you from you cause only you know where you stand & the world's knows nothing
2847 Carl Henegan
Strangers are never seen through a window. When our eyes are cast upon another, we are in fact gazing into the depths of a mirror. If you truly desire to understand how you feel about yourself, just take an honest look at how you view the world around you.
4691 Donald C.Nwokedi
always say something! is either to yourself or to the world around!
4770 Brennan Manning
Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.
3991 Emma Donoghue
If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could.
2253 Gabriel García Márquez
He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.
2704 Katharine Hepburn
We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.
2058 C. JoyBell C.
Don't think about making life better for other people who don't even deserve you, rather, focus on making your life the best, for yourself and those who love you.
3290 Ayn Rand
To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder?
4043 Toba Beta
I don't judge people.
It blurs out the center of my attention,
my focus,
myself.
4938 Brené Brown
If you own this story you get to write the ending.
3277 Richard Paul Evans
I've come to know that what we want in life is the greatest indication of who we really are.
2916 Amit Ray
Write it on your heart you are the most beautiful soul of the Universe. Realize it, honor it and celebrate the life.
4389 Rumi
You are an ocean in a drop of dew,
all the universes in a thin sack of blood.
What are these pleasures then,
these joys, these worlds
that you keep reaching for,
hoping they will make you more alive?
1471 Rolf Edberg
In still moments by the sea life seems large-drawn and simple. It is there we can see into ourselves.
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