4,826 Quotes About Self

When you and I are inclined to nestle down in indolence and self indulgence. God "stirs up our nests" and bids us fly upward.

Self-contemplation is infallibly the symptom of disease.

Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.

When you're in a two-shot together, you can't be the same as when you're both in singles. Try as you will, it cannot be the same as when you're in the shot together. It simply cannot be. It's physically impossible. You're behind the camera desperately wanting to help your colleague. When it's just you, on your own, it can be self-conscious in a way that you're not when we're just talking, you and I, and then all of a sudden it's me and then it's you. The two-shots were probably more natural.

I loved her enough to forget myself, my self pitying despairs, and be content that something she thought happy was going to happen.

I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy?

I used to be more self-conscious about style because when you're younger, you want to exist, you want to show everything you do.

We bear our shades about us; self-deprived Of other screen, the thin umbrella spread, And range an Indian waste without a tree.

It's heartbreaking to see so many people trapped in a web of enforced idleness, deep debt, and gnawing self-doubt.