Quotes About Self

In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths.

Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

I think we live in an age of self empowerment and possibilities, the only excuse to not do something is yourself.

One thing they don't tell you about growing old - you don't feel old, you just feel like yourself. And it's true. I don't feel eighty-nine years old. I simply am eighty-nine years old.

Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same.

Praise they that will times past, I joy to see My selfe now live: this age best pleaseth mee.

At 68 I'm every age I ever was. I always think of that. I'm not just 68. I'm also 55 and 21 and three. Oh especially three.

I've told so many lies about my age I don't know how old I am myself.

At a certain age you're always uncertain how other people will take you.

I'm my age and I feel glorious.

Misery which, through long ages, had no spokesman, no helper, will now be its own helper and speak for itself.

The nice thing about age is worrying less and less about what people think.

Why do people in this age think their own impoverished lives must be the norm of the universe?

I've never worried about age.

When I turned 40, I was like, huh. I accept myself more now. It was much more comforting.

In my mid-age I do feel more at peace - not with the world, but with myself.

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

I am alone; I am always alone no matter what.

If we seek paradise outside ourselves, we cannot have paradise in our hearts.

Only when you can accept that you are alone, will you discover that you are not alone.

Feeling alone guides the mind.

You're certainly not alone in your megalomania. Everyone feels that way-and for good reason. Because it's true!

You're amazing, just the way you are.

Anger is a tool for change when it challenges us to become more of an expert on the self and less of an expert on others.