self Quotes

“We all live in our own world. But if you lookup at the starry sky, you’ll see that all the different worlds up there combine to form constellations, solar systems, galaxies.”

― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

topic:self difference

“I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.”

― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

topic:self others

“As long as your own personality is what you are bothering about you are not going to Him at all. The very first step is to try to forget about the self altogether.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

topic:self God humility

“Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them, if they will not apply themselves to me.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

topic:self control

“It doesn’t matter how old I get, but as long as I continue to live I’ll always discover something new about myself.”

― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

topic:self age

“The whole point of being alive is to become the person you were intended to be, to grow out of and into yourself again and again.”

― Oprah Winfrey, What I Know For Sure

topic:self

“Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about ourself.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

topic:self reality

“He's the victim of a critical age; he has ceased to believe in himself and he doesn't know what to believe in.”

― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

topic:self belief age

“when a man suspects any wrong, it sometimes happens that if he be already involved in the matter, he insensibly strives to cover up his suspicions even from himself.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

topic:hiding self

“what a real friend is will never be revealed; for he is, as it were, a second self.”

― Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Friendship

topic:self friendship

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