Old Self Quotes
61 quotes by 61 authors
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When life appears to be working against you, when your luck is down, when the supposedly wrong people show up, or when you slip up…
— Aldous Huxley
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How different the world would look, how different the state of our nation would be, if there were more sanctified priestly souls! These are souls…
— Basilea Schlink
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She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every day more bitterly, that young…
— Doris Lessing
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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 to be fine.…
— Queen Latifah
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We were not always 70, or rather our 70 is an accumulation of all the other ways we were. Our 5-year-old selves became our 10-year-old…
— Anne Roiphe
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Say Bismillah, In the name of God, as the shaykh does with a knife when he offers an animal. Bismillah your old self to find…
— Rumi
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But when I call for a hero, out comes my lazy old self; so I never know who I am, nor how many I am…
— Pablo Neruda
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So the secret is just to say 'Yes!' and jump off from here. Then there is no problem. It means to be yourself, always yourself,…
— Shunryu Suzuki
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Most of us still caged within careers chosen for us by our not entirely worldly 18-22 year old selves.
— Alain de Botton
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Our competition in life is solely with our old self.
— Boyd K. Packer
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The pain of sacrificing our old selves is nothing compared to the joy of Christ living in us in our transformed lives.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Tests showed cancer of the larynx and the doctor advised an operation immediately. I was informed that my larynx had to be removed completely. I…
— Jurgen Neukirch
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What's amazing to me now is that I actually recall fixating on the fact that my thighs a-l-m-o-s-t touched at the top....If I could go…
— Anita Renfroe
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I always stayed in tune with my own ambitions and attitudes and I'm still my intractable old self, for better or worse.
— LeRoy Neiman
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I can feel my old self come out more and more in trainings.
— Charlie Davies
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There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity i am bought and sold; for them i will go to prison, if…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I'm finally able to tell you... that I will be playing Belle in Disney's new live-action Beauty and the Beast! It was such a big…
— Emma Watson
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When you start to crack open, don’t waste a moment gathering your old self up into something like you knew before. Let your new self…
— Brian Andreas
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There is a place deep, deep inside every person that is hidden and hard to find. If things get bad enough and life gets too…
— Victoria Forester
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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 downtown.
— Nelly Furtado
Who Wrote These Old Self Quotes
61 authors contributed a total of 61 Old Self Quotes, led by these top contributors: