“You have nothing to prove. Only to yourself. That you're better than your old self.” — M.L. Shanahan Copy Share Image
“Then I'll cleave to my old self and spirit the full host of angels into the present with me.Even the ugly ones.” — Lauren Kate Copy Share Image
... I felt like a new man; but I was disappointed with the photographic documentation because I still saw always the old self. — Arnulf Rainer Copy Share Image
“Next week, I should be back to my old self." "I hope not." Dallas nudged me with his shoulder.” — Veronica Blade Copy Share Image
You hope that your teenage self would like and forgive your 50-year-old self. — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
I miss my old self I have killed that person that sweet little girl I use to be, But I will never… — Cheyenne-35 Copy Share Image
“Good will never be enough as long as great exist. Don't look to do better than anyone else aim to do better… — Tyconis D. Allison Ty Copy Share Image
It's not like my old self - I'm not in character anymore, I'm me. I'm not hiding behind that anymore. — Damon Albarn Copy Share Image
Some guys don't have to work out as hard as other guys do, but if you balance all that together then your… — Andre Reed Copy Share Image
“Maybe growing up was really nothing more than growing away: from your old life, from your old self, all those things that… — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
Leave behind your old self and take a leap of faith into the unknown, you will surely find out what you are… — Kemmy Nola Copy Share Image
When you start to crack open, don’t waste a moment gathering your old self up into something like you knew before. Let… — Brian Andreas Copy Share Image
Love is fundamentally a death of an old self that was isolated and the emergence of a new self now entangled with… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
You might think you made a new world or a new self, but your old self is always gonna be there, just… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Poppy was now almost well. She still slept more than usual, but when she wasn't sleeping she tromped around the doctor's house… — Jeanne DuPrau Copy Share Image
I think if my eight-year-old self could see me at the Royal Albert Hall winning a prize for playing the Doctor on… — David Tennant Copy Share Image
“...I began to understand that the sleeplessness and vigilance and constant feedings were a form of brainwashing, a process by which my… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
My family didn't go to church. Once when I slept over at the house of a friend, her parents brought me to… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“No matter what she was doing-baking cookies, walking around the lake on a beautiful day, making love to her husband-she felt rushed… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
Whoever's reading this, if anyone is reading it: does it matter that our old selves are lost to us as surely as… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
We were not always 70, or rather our 70 is an accumulation of all the other ways we were. Our 5-year-old selves… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
Those were the people who made her something, and without them she was different. She'd held on to them and to that… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
“Only now, as I'm typing this, have I realized the only thing I wasn't thinking of was how lonely I was. I… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
Inside the house, I turned on the kitchen light, revealing the photographs stuck every which way all over the cabinets, and then… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“But after all the years, her husband and children have come to accept that, once every few weeks, their usually warmhearted and… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
“My Dear Mrs Winter. (I had half a mind when I dipped my pen in the ink, to address you by your… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I was genuinely expecting 'You're just a shit actor' instead of 'We want you to do it.' I realized immediately how much… — Andrew Garfield Copy Share Image
“What meaning our lives may seem to have is the work of a relatively well-constituted emotional system. As consciousness gives us the… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“All transitions involve leaving a consolidated self behind before any new self can take its place. At the 4-5 shift this means… — Robert Kegan Copy Share Image
There is, of course, always the personal satisfaction of writing down one's experiences so they may be saved, caught and pinned under… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“What I call my philosophy of teaching is in fact a philosophy of learning. It comes out of Plato, modified. Before true… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“The Marquess screamed. All this time, she had been small and cowering, nothing like herself, a shadow of a shadow. But when… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“Ignatius, all at once you're your horrible old self. All at once I think I'm making a very big mistake.” — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
If you are renewed by grace, and were to meet your old self, I am sure you would be very anxious to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm channelling my 14-year-old self. She's thinking about putting on her big hoop earrings and baggy pants and going to the mall… — Nelly Furtado Copy Share Image
By leaving behind your old self & taking a leap of faith into the unknown, you find out what you are truly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes. — Clare Boothe Luce Copy Share Image
If I saw my 15-year-old self now, I'd think I wasn't that bad, but back then I perceived myself as awful. — Orla Brady Copy Share Image
Most of us still caged within careers chosen for us by our not entirely worldly 18-22 year old selves. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
My parents were Quaker, and they were part of that old self-improving working class. — David Starkey Copy Share Image
