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Quotes About Self

I will say I am the sum of my books.
~ V. S. Naipaul
This is such a special summer holiday for me. I haven't known myself so relaxed in years.
~ Kylie Minogue
My most important goal is to set myself up on every Sunday to have a chance to win, and I know if I do those things, then everything else will take care of itself.
~ Tony Finau
Sundays are the one day of the week I might cook for myself.
~ Angela Yee
My hair color is super important to my look because I feel like it helps kind of define who I am. It's like a characteristic of mine that makes me feel comfortable and different from the rest.
~ Justine Skye
I've always been super expressive, and I've always liked to express myself any way I can.
~ Lakeith Stanfield
I know I look super young.
~ Rachel Bilson
At the end of the day, it's not about starting a game in the NFL, winning a Super Bowl, or getting to the Hall of Fame. It's about representing yourself in a way that represents your faith.
~ Kurt Warner
Social media is an advertisement for the superficial extroverted self.
~ Hozier
Sometimes in L.A., we get accused of being superficial. I feel like Portland's the opposite, in that there's a greater depth of character, and sense of self.
~ Ruben Fleischer
I think you just have to appreciate who you are and hopefully they can see what a superhero is about.
~ Lucy Liu
Think... of the world you carry within you.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
And you should not let yourself be confused in your solitude by the fact that there is something in you that wants to move out of it.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
For sometime now I have believed that it is our own force, all our own force that is still too great for us. It is true that we do not know it; but is it not just that which is most our own of which we know the least?
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
we want it visible to show when even the most visible joy will reveal itself only when we have transformed it within. there's nowhere, my love, the world can exist expect within.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Our own heart always exceeds us.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
She was in herself, like a woman near term, and did not think of the man, going on ahead, or the path, climbing upwards towards life. She was in herself. And her being-dead filled her with abundance. As a fruit with sweetness and darkness, so she was full with her vast death.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Dirait-on Abandon entouré d'abandon, tendresse touchant aux tendresses ... C'est ton intérieur qui sans cesse se caresse, dirait-on; se caresse en soi-même, par son propre reflet éclairé. Ainsi tu inventes le thème du Narcisse exaucé.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
We, hurt by ourselves, keen to be hurters and keen to be hurt back deep inside. We, like weapons laid beside anger asleep.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
that which we call destiny goes forth from within people, not from without into them.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Everywhere I am folded, there I am a lie.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Love at first has nothing to do with unfolding, abandon and uniting with another person (for what would be the sense in a union of what is unrefined and unfinished, still second order?); for the individual it is a grand opportunity to mature, to become something in himself, to become a world, to become a world in himself for another's sake; it is a great immoderate demand made upon the self, something that singles him out and summons him to vast designs.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
C'est toi qui prépares en toi plus que toi, ton ultime essence. Ce qui sort de toi, ton ultime essence. Ce qui sort de toi, ce troublant émoi, c'est ta danse. Chaque pétale consent et fait dans le vent quelques pas odorants invisibles. Ô musiques des yeux, toute entourée d'eux, tu deviens au milieu intangible.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
I love the dark hours of my being. My mind deepens into them.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke