4,826 Quotes About Self

No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.

Worlds self made are so full of monsters and demons.

Is devotion to others a cover for the hungers and the needs of the self, of which one is ashamed? I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not virtue. It was a disguise.

Balance is not to be sought by association with others; it must exist within one's self.

I would like to change everything, but obviously not everything. I've been incredibly fortunate. I guess everybody would do this, but I'd go back to my younger self and say, "Lighten up. Take it easy. Relax. Don't be so anxious about everything. Try to be in the day. Try to not have today stolen from you by anxiety about yesterday or tomorrow."

...Emma Morley wasn't such a paragon either: pretentious, petulant, lazy, speechifying, judgmental. Self-pitying, self righteous, self-important, all the selfs except self-confident, the quality that she had always needed the most.

I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind

Self-consciousness is really a form of egotism.

Hiddenness is the place of purification. In hiddenness we find our true selves.