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Quotes About Self

That all courage was a form of constancy. That it was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily. I
~ Cormac McCarthy
That all courage was a form of constancy. That it was always himself that the coward abandoned first.
~ Cormac McCarthy
It was always himself that the coward abandoned first, after this all other betrayals came easily
~ Cormac McCarthy
A man's at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with.
~ Cormac McCarthy
He had not stopped cursing. Whatever voice spoke him was no demon but some old shed self that came yet from time to time in the name of sanity, a hand to gentle him back from the rim of his disastrous wrath.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.
~ Cormac McCarthy
que somos las víctimas del tiempo. En realidad la vía del mundo no es fijada en ningún lugar. Cómo sería posible? Nosotros mismos somos nuestra propia jornada. Y por eso somos el tiempo también. Somos lo mismo. Fugitivo. Inescrutable. Desapiadado.
~ Cormac McCarthy
To be humble is to be so sure of one's self and one's mission that one can forego calling excessive attention to one's self and status.
~ Cornel West
That's why love is so inseparable from any talk about truth and death, because we know that love is fundamentally a death of an old self that was isolated and the emergence of a new self now entangled with another self, the self that you fall in love with.
~ Cornel West
To be humble is to be so sure of one's self and one's mission that one can forego calling excessive attention to one's self and status. And, even more pointedly, to be humble is to revel in the accomplishments or potentials of others -- especially those with whom one identifies and to whom one is linked organically.
~ Cornel West
Humility is the fruit of inner security and wise maturity. To be humble is to be so sure of one's self and one's mission that one can forego calling excessive attention to one's self and status.
~ Cornel West
And that everyone has to find their own path, even brothers.
~ Cornelia Funke
The Fairy looked at the broken glass around her feet. Her shattered cage. And the one who'd put her in it was far, far away. But, no, she had caged herself.
~ Cornelia Funke
Sometimes Dustfinger thought Basta's constant fear of curses and sudden disaster probably arose from his terror of the darkness within himself, which made him assume that the rest of the world must be exactly the same. Dustfinger
~ Cornelia Funke
The worst thing is to be worrying about what someone else is doing, because that has nothing to do with whether you're doing right.
~ Cory Doctorow
Seth was a portable, external id. Not always comfortable or appropriate, but handy nevertheless.
~ Cory Doctorow
The Alchemical world view, in stark contrast to the scientific world view, where rational deterministic man is completely separated from both Nature and the Self, in fact the Self does not even exist. In the alchemical world view, all three are inextricably woven together and in synchronistic or archetypal events & occurrences in one's life, all distinctions between them blur and almost disappear.
~ Craig Nelson
The truth was that I didn't know which I was. I wasn't allowed to claim the thing I felt and I didn't feel the thing I was supposed to claim.
~ Cristina Henriquez
We stood side by side and looked out at the vastness, the possibility of everything out there. Within the universe, I felt like a speck, but within myself I felt gigantic, the salt air filling my lungs, the roaring of the waves rushing in my ears.
~ Cristina Henriquez
Finding is for things that are lost. You don't need to find me, Mayor.
~ Cristina Henriquez
Something inside me clenched. So often, people let you down; so often, situations turn out disappointingly. But occasionally someone recognizes, acknowledges, your private and truest self.
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
There was a way in which my grandmother's true self was not these guests' business; no one's true self was the business of more than a very small number of family members or close friends.
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
I was me, Hillary, but I also was a vessel and a proxy.
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
So often, people let you down; so often, situations turn out disappointingly. But occasionally someone recognizes, acknowledges, your private and truest self.
~ Curtis Sittenfeld