self Quotes

“I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand.”

― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

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“You’re always you, and that don’t change, and you’re always changing, and there’s nothing you can do about it.”

― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

topic:self change

“I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a...”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

topic:self loneliness soul

“Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.”

― Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments

topic:self power

“Pride, therefore, is pleasure springing from a man thinking too highly of himself.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

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“Every man’s work . . . is always a portrait of himself”

― Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh

topic:self work

“It is not my place to judge another person's life. Only for myself, for myself alone, I must decide, I must chose, I must refuse.”

― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

topic:self choice judgement

“Whatever any one does or says, I must be emerald and keep my colour.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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“The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill most people.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

topic:self killing

“To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in one’s self.”

― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

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