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I lost the conviction that lights would always turn green for me, the pleasant certainty that those rather passive virtues which had won me approval… — Joan Didion
My self-confidence comes from the fact that I have discovered my own dimensions. It does not behoove me to make myself smaller than I am. — Edith SÃ¶dergran
My fear of life is necessary to me, as is my illness. Without anxiety and illness, I am a ship without a rudder. My art… — Edvard Munch
I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control. — Jane Austen
When life descends into the pit I must become my own candle Willingly burning my self To light up the darkness around me. — Alice Walker
I feel, am mad as any writer must in one way be; why not make it real? I am too close to the bourgeois society… — Sylvia Plath
my sweet old etcetera aunt lucy during the recent war could and what is more did tell you just what everybody was fighting for, my… — E E Cummings
I just thought to my self, all of a sudden, that we had something in common. A natural chemistry, if you will. And I had… — Sarah Dessen
Gonna change my way of thinking, make my self a different set of rules. Gonna put my good foot forward and stop being influenced by… — Bob Dylan
I loved her enough to forget myself, my self pitying despairs, and be content that something she thought happy was going to happen. — Truman Capote
I put my hand out and wiped the vomit from his lips, and cooed soothing words to him. It squeezed my heart to see him… — Aravind Adiga
Sam: “You—you greatly overestimate my self-control.” Grace: “I’m not looking for self-control. — Maggie Stiefvater
Does everyone feel this way? When I was young, I was perpetually overconfident or insecure. Either I felt completely useless, unattractive, and worthless, or that… — Bernhard Schlink
My self is all to me. I don't have any need of you. — Joyce Carol Oates
Well, I always tried to look nice and be feminine even in the worst tragedies and crisis, there's no reason to add to everyone's misery… — Elizabeth Gilbert
No mistakes, I'd promised myself that i would make no mistakes, no matter how minimal they seemed. if i held her hand, i would only… — Stephenie Meyer
I have to go," he said at last, getting to his feet. "I shouldn't even be here, but I cannot keep my self away from… — Lauren Kate
Roza, my self-control is ten times stronger than yours." I opened my eyes, shifting to look into his. I brushed his hair back and smiled,… — Richelle Mead
It always comes back to our insecurities, as we say, "Oh, I'm not as good as you." So instead of accepting that perhaps I am… — Desmond Tutu
I am concussed," I announced, entirely sure of my self-diagnosis. — John Green
There are times when I worry that I've already lost myself. That is, that my self is so inseparable from being with you that if… — David Levithan
Martin said, "It feels as though part of my self has detached and gone to Amsterdam, where it—she—is waiting for me. Do you know about… — Audrey Niffenegger
All the lines that held me to my life were sliced apart in swift cuts, like clipping the strings of a bunch of balloons. Everything… — Stephenie Meyer
So I make no effort to hide my pain. I don’t ever put it all on display like this—but for today and all the rest… — Ann Aguirre
Partly I was honing my self-consciousness into a torture device, sharp and efficient enough to last me the rest of my life. — Lucy Grealy

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