Don't they always go from bad to worse? There's no turning back--your old self rejects you, and shuts you out. ~Lilly Bart — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“If you want to kill yourself, kill what you don’t like. I had an old self that I killed. You can kill… — Vargus Copy Share Image
I wasn't in control of my destiny, feeling empty thinking wheres the rest of me, gotta make it but I need the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Say Bismillah, In the name of God, as the shaykh does with a knife when he offers an animal. Bismillah your old… — Rumi Copy Share Image
What I did do is have a much longer camp to let my body do it the right way. It has probably… — Roy Jones Jr Copy Share Image
“When you hit the wall in your disciplines, routines, rhythms, and consistency, realize that’s when you are separating yourself from your old… — Darren Hardy Copy Share Image
'Looper' is about what your 55-year-old self would tell your 25-year-old self over a cup of coffee. It's about finding love in… — Jason Reitman Copy Share Image
She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every day more… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“Almost everyone I've ever met who overeats is doing so on behalf of an old self (a discouraged child, an unpopular teenager,… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“Because no matter how far you may travel, you are what you are, and even when you are flying at thrilling new… — Jeff Lindsay Copy Share Image
“No, I am not sorry for having offended him. I don't mind him; but Ailie, how little one knows! All the angry… — Charlotte Mary Yonge Copy Share Image
That's what just hit me: How you really can't have everything. You have to give up the old to get the new.… — Katherine Center Copy Share Image
“To me, the urge to be published is equivalent to the first quarter of the hero's journey, where normal life seems not… — Rob Parnell Copy Share Image
To gain your heart's desire you have to lose some part of your old life, your old self. To do that you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I experienced a devastating loss of self...But in the same moment, I also recognized that a profound commitment had taken root inside… — Judith Warner Copy Share Image
“The experience of watching Leonard get better was like reading certain difficult books. It was plowing through late James, or the pages… — Jeffery Eugenides Copy Share Image
“When regrets do happen? Well, I can count a few and when they do happen, I console myself with — at that… — Mystqx Skye Copy Share Image
“We are all storytellers, and if we listen deeply and share honestly, we will find that wonderful feeling of community and wisdom… — Colette Baron Reid Copy Share Image
“Emergence from embeddedness involves a kind of repudiation, an evolutionary re-cognition that what before was me is not-me. This we see, too,… — Robert Kegan Copy Share Image
“During those days before the girl from the lake was finally buried in her hometown, Jay had been the one who kept… — Kimberly Derting Copy Share Image
“The cross had touched his heart and will. That was all. It had changed his whole being. He is a living illustration… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
“All growth is costly. It involves the leaving behind of an old way of being in the world. Often it involves, at… — Robert Kegan Copy Share Image
Woe to those who get what they desire. Fulfillment leaves an empty space where your old self used to be, the self… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
“You don’t know anyone at the party, so you don’t want to go. You don’t like cottage cheese, so you haven’t eaten… — Julien Smith Copy Share Image
“Eh, I've always rather enjoyed being fashionably late." I picked up the violin case for Melanie, giving her an hug before clambering… — Allison Pang Copy Share Image
So the secret is just to say 'Yes!' and jump off from here. Then there is no problem. It means to be… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
It's like the day you realize dolls are dolls. I pick up my old self and I see it's silly. A toy… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
What's it like then?" asked Old Bailey. "Being dead?" The marquis sighed. And then he twisted his lips up into a smile,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
That's why love is so inseparable from any talk about truth and death, because we know that love is fundamentally a death… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She was delighted to meet her old self when the wind unexpectedly blew in her direction. The remains of whom she had… — Henna Sohail Copy Share Image
You can't talk about truth without talking about learning how to die because it's precisely by learning how to die, examining yourself… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“The ending can only start with the beginning and end with self estrangement, as to become once again his own/old self. This… — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
Through learning we grow, becoming more than we were before, and in that sense learning is unselfish, because it results in the… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
From the moment on that you accepted Christ as your Lord and personal saviour, everything that you do should resemble Christ and… — Magdalyn Copy Share Image
“Travel always excited her--the strong and unfamiliar smells, the movement, the anxiety of arrival and departure times, she shouting of conductors, the… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
“Paradoxically, we achieve true wholeness only by embracing our fragility and sometimes, our brokenness. Wholeness is a natural radiance of Love, and… — Jalaja Bonheim Copy Share Image
You always feel like your 18-year-old self in some sense. And that's what walking through New York on a June evening feels… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
I don't have any regrets. If I could have talked to my 19- or 20-year-old self, I would have said, 'You're going… — Queen Latifah Copy Share Image
'Showgirls' was a critical point in my life. I had my head handed to me. At 21 years old, I had to… — Elizabeth Berkley Copy Share Image
“Change takes time. It takes time for the seeds to begin growing within, time to understand and process, time for the growth… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
