Quotes about Self
Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul. - Henry Van Dyke, The Prison and the Angel
We don't know wo we are until we see what we can do. - Martha Grimes (Author
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We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves. - Jean Guitton
We get so much in the habit of wearing a disguise before others that we eventually appear disguised before ourselves. - Jim Bishop
We sometimes feel that we have been really understood, but it was always long ago, by someone now dead. - Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
No one beneath you can offend you. No one your equal would. - Jan L. Wells
The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability he has. - Confucius Quote
We're all a little odd beneath the surface. - from the back cover of Forever Odd, by Dean Koontz
The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us. - Robert Louis Stevenson
Maybe taking ourselves for somebody else means that we cannot bear to see ourselves as we are. - Albert Brie
We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it. - William Osler
There's one thing worse than being alone, wishing you were. - Bob Steele
Man is never alone. Acknowledged or unacknowledged, that which dreams through him is always there to support him from within. - Laurence van der Post
The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in. - Bill Copeland
Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody. - Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson
We visit others as a matter of social obligation. How long has it been since we have visited with ourselves? - Morris Adler
Think positively about yourself.... ask God who made you to keep on remaking you. - Norman Vincent Peale
What we must decide is how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are. - Edgar Z. Friedenberg
Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves. - Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
In order to deal with the chaos that exists in the world today, you need some grounding. That grounding best comes from knowing who you are. - Michael Ray
When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will ahve from birth to death - ourselves. - Eda LeShan
I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing. - Katherine Anne Porter
Knowing others is intelligence. Knowing yourself is true wisdom. - Lao Tse Quote
No man, for any considerable time, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true. - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude. - Sir Thomas Browne
The only man we have any respect for, is he who uses all the endowment he has, and uses it until he bleeds. - Martin H. Fischer
Until you make peace with you you are, you'll never be content with what you have. - Doris Mortman
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