Quotes on self
Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
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Mark Twain Quotes
Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.
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Aesop Quotes
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.
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Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
Sometimes at night I light a lamp so as not to see.
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Antonio Porchia Quotes
Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions.
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D.H. Lawrence Quotes
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
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Agnes Repplier Quotes
All men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives, trying to create their idea of a masterpiece.
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Eddie Murphy Quotes
I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.
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Sylvia Plath Quotes
To wash one's hair, make one's toilet, and put on scented robes; even if not a soul sees one, these preparations still produce an inner pleasure.
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Sei Shonagon Quotes
I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing.
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Katherine Anne Porter Quotes
The only man we have any respect for, is he who uses all the endowment he has, and uses it until he bleeds.
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Martin H. Fischer Quotes
The finest thing in the world is knowing how to belong to oneself.
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Michel de Montaigne Quotes
Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme.
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Daniel Defoe Quotes
There are at least two kinds of cowards. One kind always lives with himself, afraid to face the world. The other kind lives with the world, afraid to face himself.
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Roscoe Snowden Quotes
Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul.
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Henry Van Dyke Quotes
Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves.
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Martin Luther King Quotes
Man is never alone. Acknowledged or unacknowledged, that which dreams through him is always there to support him from within.
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Laurence van der Post Quotes
We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
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Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
So you are lean and mean and resourceful and you continue to walk on the edge of the precipice because over the years you have become fascinated by how close you can walk without losing your balance.
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Richard M. Nixon Quotes
People wish to be settled: only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book shown to him by heart, and his friends can only read the title.
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Virginia Woolf Quotes
You are your own judge. The verdict is up to you.
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Astrid Alauda Quotes
The words "I am" are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you.
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A.L. Kitselman Quotes
A man is ever apt to contemplate himself out of all proportion to his surroundings.
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Christina G. Rossetti Quotes
Your soul is all that you possess. Take it in hand and make something of it!
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Martin H. Fischer Quotes