self Quotes

“Close your mouth, block off your senses, blunt your sharpness, untie your knots, soften your glare, settle your dust. This is the primal identity.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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“You can move away from a stranger. You can't move away from yourself.”

― Stephen King, The Shining

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“I am large, I contain multitudes.”

― Walt Whitman, Song of Myself

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“In the meantime let me be that I am, and seek not to alter me.”

― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

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“no man's a hero to himself.”

― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes

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“Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.”

― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

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“The final mystery is oneself.”

― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

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“But there is one thing which these so clear, these so venerable teachings do not contain: they do not contain the mystery of what the exalted one has experienced for himself, he alone among hundreds of thousands.”

― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

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“If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.”

― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

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“If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow — you are not understanding yourself.”

― Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do

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