Because you believed In yourself Your tiny self Because…

“I knew how I sounded - slow and oafish, like the cousin who gets ditched and goes on playing alone, as if he'd planned…

— Michael Cunningham

“My mother had not let anything go. Inside that self we knew, which might at times appear blurred a bit, or sidetracked, she kept…

— Alice Munro

Self-respect,--the corner-stone of all virtue.

— John Herschel

“A powerful spiritual practice is consciously to allow the diminishment of ego when it happens without attempting to restore it. I recommend that you…

— Eckhart Tolle

“I figure the more people think I'm just mildly weird, the less likely they are to know how weird I really am.”

— Melanie Hooyenga

“. Self-reliance means you're in control. Don't ever think you need a man for happiness. Besides,”

— Bella Forrest

“We don't have to defeat any individual but our own self.”

— Avijeet Das

“I can't be bound by a past self I don't remember.”

— Sarah Beth Durst

In the quiet moments of your day, what do you think and do? When you are with your Self and no one else, how…

— Neale Donald Walsch

The self is defined psychologically as the psychic totality of the individual. Anything that a [person] postulates as being a greater totality than [oneself]…

— Carl Jung

“Do not own negative self-talk.”

— Asa Don Brown

“The service of self terminates at our own death.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

It's difficult to believe in yourself because the idea of self is an artificial construction. You are, in fact, part of the glorious oneness…

— Russell Brand

Our world is drowning in a sea of self-centeredness. You can make yourself quite unique right away by leaving this ocean of selfishness and…

— John Bytheway

I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:…

— Orson Scott Card