Quotes About Self

I do I know not what, and fear to find Mine eye too great a flatterer for my mind. Fate, show thy force. Ourselves we do not owe. What is decreed must be; and be this so.

Which can say more than this rich praise, that you alone are you?

I'll never be such a gosling to obey instinct, but stand as if a man were author to himself and knew no other kin.

Is it possible he should know what he is, and be that he is?

She is herself a dowry.

Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel.

Marry, sir, they praise me and make an ass of me, now my foes tell me plainly I am an ass. So that by my foes, sir I profit in the knowledge of myself, and by my friends, I am abused.

Making a famine where abundance lies,   Thy self thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel:

Not I; I must be found; My parts, my title, and my perfect soul, Shall manifest me rightly.

By heaven, I love thee better than myself, For I come hither arm'd against myself.

What matters it what went before or after, Now with myself I will begin and end.

My mistress is my mistress, this myself.

Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self—to the mediating intellect—as to verge close to being beyond description.

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself as I am, then I change.

have come to the conclusion that the greatest obstacle to getting what we really want in life is not the other party, as difficult as he or she can be. The biggest obstacle is actually ourselves. We get in our own way.

You are what you are, I am what I am. It's just as simple as that.

There was an old saying about how God helped those who helped themselves. Preacher would have added that God watched over those who weren't damn fools to start with.

Of course I'm an egoist. Where do you get if you aren't?

I was myself so smitten in public opinion that it was the almost universal view that my political life was at last ended.

I mistrust folk who are always bringing God or Christ into their conversations. If it is not an actual blasphemy it is at least a presumption. It smacks of self-conceit, doesn't it?

She added, "I've only followed the devices and desires of my own heart." Verity patted her hand. "That's what we love you for.

We are all worms, But I do believe that I am a glow worm.

I am my own obstacle.

Buscar sinceridad en unas memorias carece de sentido. Mejor sería preguntarse qué versión de uno mismo y del mundo ha escogido el autor, dado que siempre hay posibilidad de elegir.