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Quotes About Self

Life is in ourselves and not in the external.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
We are afraid. But fear confirms life and identifies the source of every successful argument - ourselves.
~ Gerry Spence
Any time you play a character for a long period of time, regardless of how close it is to you, it infiltrates your life. It's impossible for it not to.
~ Jesse Eisenberg
This is your life - you must die by yourself, so for heaven's sake, live for yourself and no one else. . . .
~ Jimi Hendrix
The true self is always in motion like music, a river of life, changing, moving, failing, suffering, learning, shining.
~ Brenda Ueland
Every life is its own excuse for being.
~ Elbert Hubbard
In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.
~ Henrik Ibsen
Belonging to oneself--the whole essence of life lies in that.
~ Ivan Turgenev
My whole life is about being Nicki Minaj now. It's a never-ending saga.
~ Nicki Minaj
Live the wonderful life that is in you.
~ Oscar Wilde
Florence and art is something that is part of my life and is part of myself.
~ Roberto Cavalli
I don't lie; I improve on my life.
~ Edith Piaf
The record of one's life must needs prove more interesting to him who writes it than to him who reads what has been written.
~ Elizabeth Kenny
Architecture isman'sgreat sense of himself embodied in a world of his own making. It may rise as high in quality only as its source because great art isgreat life.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
Live as though life was created for you.
~ Maya Angelou
Your real self - the I am I - is master of this land, the ruler of this empire. You rightfully have power and dominion over it, all its inhabitants, and all contained in its realm.
~ Robert Collier
If you don't write your books, nobody else will do it for you. No one else has lived your life.
~ Jose Saramago
We are kept out of the Garden by our own fear and desire in relation to what we think to be the goods of our life.
~ Joseph Campbell
It's not longer 'Look what I can do, I can do it better then you.' It's just I am.
~ K'naan
You hold precious what you create for yourself in your life that makes you comfortable.
~ Keegan-Michael Key
In an unmoored life like mine, sleep and hunger and work arrange themselves to suit themselves, without consulting me.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
You cannot take the life of your times further than you have taken yourself.
~ Laurens van der Post
It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
~ Graham Greene
I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.
~ Fernando Flores