4,826 Quotes About Self

  • Author Cassandra Clare
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    Sophie said to me once that she was glad she had been scarred. She said that whoever loved her now would love her true self, and not her pretty face. This is your true self, Tessa. This power is who you are. Whoever loves you now--and you must also love yourself--will love the truth of you.

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  • Author Iris Murdoch
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    We are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason. But we cannot just walk into the cavern and look around. Most of what we think we know about our minds is pseudo-knowledge. We are all such shocking poseurs, so good at inflating the importance of what we think we value.

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  • Author Erin Hanson
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    My mother always told meNo monster lived beneath my bed,But she had failed to warn meIt laid on top of it instead.

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  • Author Kristin Cast
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    We all have bad things inside us, and we all choose either to give in to those bad things or to fight them.

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