self Quotes

“I'd rather be myself . . . Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

topic:self kindness

“Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

topic:love self

“My wealth is in my knowledge of self, love, and spirituality.”

― Muhammad Ali, The Soul of a Butterfly

topic:love knowledge self wealth

“The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action.”

― Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do

topic:self action consciousness

“Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed. It is the unsacrificed self that we must respect in man above all.”

― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

topic:self

“Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”

― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

topic:self others

“I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.”

― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

topic:self

“Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don't see the self as self, what do we have to fear?”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

topic:self fear hope

“People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

topic:love self pain

“I can't explain MYSELF, I'm afraid, sir . . . because I'm not myself, you see.”

― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

topic:self responsibility

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