4,826 Quotes About Self

Medicine can work miracles but you can do so much for yourself by just saying NO!

Prefer being rejected at your new standard than being accepted at your old one.

By retracing the emotional fragments lost in the turns and splits of the past, we may learn to reconstruct a shattered self, find a sensible present, and prepare to inhabit a share of the future. ("Camera obscura of the mind" )

It’s not enough to watch the great people in our lives and wish ourselves to be like them. Rather, it’s realizing that we need to wish ourselves to be the best version of us. For then, we will be like the people we’ve been watching.

I know of no redeeming qualities in me but a sincere love for some things, and when I am reproved I have to fall back on to this ground. This is my argument in reserve for all cases ... When I am condemned, and condemn myself utterly, I think straightway, “But I rely on my love for some things.” Therein I am whole and entire.

I cannot tell you what I am, more than a ray of the summer’s sun. What I am I am, and say not. Being is the great explainer.

Cred că uneori avem nevoie de momente în care să putem fi triști sau furioși sau apatici și să nu trebuiască să ne explicăm comportamentul. Sunt unele părți din tine pe care nu vrei să le arăți nimănui și chiar nu e necesar să o faci.

We all have our states of fullness and of emptiness, but we overflow at different points. One overflows through the sensual outlets, another through his heart, another through his head, and another perchance only through the higher part of his head, or his poetic faculty. It depends on where each is tight and open. We can, perchance, then direct our nutriment to those organs we specially use.

While at home, you get to know the world, but on the road, yourself.