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Quotes About Self

c'est moi"—"the state is myself
~ Jay Winik
Role models or not, in the end every man has to decide for himself just what kind of man he will be.
~ Jayne Ann Krentz
You gotta have a body.
~ Jayne Mansfield
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
~ Jean Anouilh
Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.
~ Jean Anouilh
Dis-moi ce que to manges, je te dirai ce que tu es -- (Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are)
~ Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.
~ Jean Cocteau
Be yourself. The world worships the original.
~ Jean Cocteau
Augustine has defined sin as the "love of self to the neglect of God" and opposes to this the "love of God to the neglect of self
~ Jean Daniélou
We heed no instincts but our own.
~ Jean de La Fontaine
He knows the universe, and himself he does not know.
~ Jean de La Fontaine
Oare încerc?m sau suntem capabili vreodat? s? în?elegem ceea ce nu suntem?
~ Jean d'Ormesson
nici unul din noi nu este nimic altceva decât ceea ce lumea din jurul lui a hot?rât c? este.
~ Jean d'Ormesson
I wanted to swallow myself by opening my mouth inordinately and turning it around over my head so that it would take in my whole body, and then the Universe, until all that would remain of me would be a ball of eaten thing which little by little would be annihilated: that is my way of seeing the end of the world.
~ Jean Genet
J'étais de toute éternité et je suis né afin de pouvoir enfin m'anéantir.
~ Jean Genet
This was the flaw in making a bargain with yourself. There is no one else there to agree to the terms.
~ Jean Hanff Korelitz
Nobody else gets to live your life.
~ Jean Hanff Korelitz
We can never see our own faces directly, never look straight into our own eyes.
~ Jean Hegland
This body is yours. No one can ever take it from you, if only you will accept yourself, claim it again--your arms, your spine, your ribs, the small of your back. It's all yours. All this bounty, all this beauty, all this strength and grace is yours. This garden is yours. Take it back. Take it back.
~ Jean Hegland
G.U.R.U - Gee, you are you!
~ Jean Houston
Appreciation starts from yourself, or from nobody at all.
~ Jean Jacques Rousseau
Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
~ Jean Jacques Rousseau
You want me to talk about love, to give you a hold, something to feel, to admire or obtain. I will not give you a straw to grasp, and in this emptiness you will be taken by yourself. You are love so don't try to be a lover.
~ Jean Klein
The world is directed towards the perceiver, it celebrates the ultimate perceiver. He who is established in the Self is in no way interested in theologies and cosmologies.
~ Jean Klein