“Holmes had returned entirely to his old self – secretive, over-confident and thoroughly annoying.” — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
“The old self seemed unprecedentedly heavier than the surrounding atmosphere.” — Aldous Huxley 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
“I do need that time, though, for Naoko's face to appear. And as the years have passed, the time has grown longer.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Give up on me " he begged her. "I don't like people dropping in to see me without warning, I have forgotten… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
“Paul says that one weapon in this ongoing fight of faith is the practice of “disciplining” the body. He was not unaware… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“In the hardest moments of a long race, the athlete’s entire conscious experience of reality boils down to a desire to continue… — Matt Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“A variant of the amnesic-plot device is the inadvertent return of the amnesiac to home territory, where he is welcomed by a… — Walker Percy 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
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
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
“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
... 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
