Everything dictated silence and self-control but I couldn't restrain myself and spoke my mind. — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
I have always lived as my truest self somewhere on the boundary between masculine and feminine. — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
One is least sure of one's self, sometimes, when one is most positive. — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
Stay out of the court of self-judgment, for there is no presumption of innocence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I can never win, my self I don't like, I don't like, I don't like, I don't like. — Korn Copy Share Image
That's something that I have to work on: Self-confidence and loving myself. — Marsai Martin Copy Share Image
If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness. — Leon Kass Copy Share Image
To have a quiet mind is to possess one's mind wholly; to have a calm spirit is to possess one's self. — Hamilton Wright Mabie Copy Share Image
Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people's perception… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
The soul raised over passion beholds identity and eternal causation, perceives the self-existance of Truth and Right, and calms itself with knowing… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Cast off everything/everyone else has known for you./ Move gratefully, from these old skins. /And this time, if you toughen,/ decide /… — Em Claire Copy Share Image
When women make their image about youth and sexuality, and not about intellect, that's kind of a dead-end road. So I think… — K. D. Lang Copy Share Image
Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life in the [London] suburb is richer at the lower levels. At these levels the people are not self-conscious at all, they… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
I would suggest to you that at this moment you are the only self that you have ever had; you've never had… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I am one Dana when I am talking to my daughter, another when I am talking to the IRS, and another still… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
A self is, by its very essence, a being with a past. One must look lengthwise backwards in the stream of time… — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
Government isn't a good way to solve problems ... [G]overnment is concerned mostly with self-perpetuation and is subject to fantastic ideas about… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I, also, would like to look and smile, sit and walk like that, so free, so worthy, so restrained, so candid, so… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
No matter what I write or speak about, it always has some connection to how our spiritual understanding impacts the world we… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Physiologists should think before putting down the instinct of self-preservation as the cardinal instinct of an organic being. A living thing seeks… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Having expressed the rage against the laws and conditions that oppressed them - maybe even excess anger in the beginning was directed… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
One reason that challenge brings happiness is that it allows you to expand your self - definition. You become larger. Suddenly you… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Ego is the greatest hurdle for your ascent. You see that ego is at a place where you have to just cross… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
The world belongs to those who set out to conquer it armed with self confidence and good humour. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Do not imitate others. You are unique. Be who you are. Be your real self. — Joel Randymar Copy Share Image
Being yourself your true self is the key to having a magnetizing personality. — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“A journey through nature is always a road thatleads to self-discovery.” — Toni Sorenson Copy Share Image
“Your original self is worth more than your imitation of someone else.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
[A]lthough the principle of equality has always been self-evident, it has never been self-executing. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I have a list a mile long of faults that sometimes bring me to my knees in self-hatred. — Frank Langella Copy Share Image
Both therapy and friendship possessed the common denominator of discovering a self. — Dorothy Gilman Copy Share Image
The self cannot be escaped, but it can be, with ingenuity and hard work, distracted. — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
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