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Quotes About Self

We fear the beast because we fear the beast within...
~ Gerald Hausman
We humans fear the beast within the wolf because we do not understand the beast within ourselves.
~ Gerald Hausman
Aspects are within us, and who seems most kingly is king.
~ Thomas Hardy
I feel there are two people inside of me-me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw me every time, and if I follow her, we get along quite nicely.
~ Kim Basinger
Whate'er th' Almighty's subsequent command, His first command is this - "Man, love thyself."
~ Edward Young
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
~ Jean Anouilh
A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.
~ Antoine de SaintExupery
Your success and happiness lie in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invisible host against difficulties.
~ Helen Keller
It is the happiness that comes from within that is lasting and fulfilling.
~ Leddy Schmeligh
Humor is the healthy way of feeling "distance" between one's self and the problem, a way of standing off and looking at one's problems with perspective.
~ Rollo May
So when you're lonely or sad or bad or blue remember where laughter's hiding . . . it's hiding inside of YOU!
~ David Saltzman
When we connect with ourselves in love, we can connect with others and the planet in love.
~ Rattana Hetzel
A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many as a thousand.
~ Virginia Woolf
Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.
~ G. Stanley Hall
Let each man think himself an act of God. His mind a thought, his life a breath of God.
~ Francis Bailey
The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis.
~ Arthur Adamov
It requires a great deal of faith for a man to be cured by his own placebos.
~ John L. McClenahan
Physician, heal thyself.
~ Bible
Most people sell their souls and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.
~ Logan Pearsall Smith
Don't let other people tell you what you want.
~ Pat Riley
Realize life as an end in itself. Functioning is all there is.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
If solid happiness we prize, within our breast this jewel lies, And they are fools who roam; the world has nothing to bestow, From our own selves our bliss must flow, And that dear hut-our home.
~ Nathaniel Cotton
Envy is an insult to oneself.
~ Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or on being.
~ William James