Old Self Quotes
61 Old Self quotes by 56 unique authors
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Whoever's reading this, if anyone is reading it: does it matter that our old selves are lost to us as surely as the past is…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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What's it like then?" asked Old Bailey. "Being dead?" The marquis sighed. And then he twisted his lips up into a smile, and with a…
— Neil Gaiman
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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
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Let me begin now, this very night, to emulate Christ. Cast off forever will be the old self and with it defeat, despair, doubt, and…
— Thomas S. Monson
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You might think you made a new world or a new self, but your old self is always gonna be there, just below the surface,…
— Haruki Murakami
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Inside the house, I turned on the kitchen light, revealing the photographs stuck every which way all over the cabinets, and then switched on the…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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For a while, Mirabelle believes there will be a moment when he will cave in and let himself love her, but eventually she lets the…
— Steve Martin
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Poppy was now almost well. She still slept more than usual, but when she wasn't sleeping she tromped around the doctor's house pulling spoons off…
— Jeanne DuPrau
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She had tricked him. She had made him leave his old self behind and come into her world, and then before he was really at…
— Katherine Paterson
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If you are renewed by grace, and were to meet your old self, I am sure you would be very anxious to get out of…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Those were the people who made her something, and without them she was different. She'd held on to them and to that old self tenaciously,…
— Ann Brashares
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Finally, Peeta turns to Pollux. "Well, then you just became our most valuable asset." Castor laughs and Pollux manages a smile. We're halfway down the…
— Suzanne Collins
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It's like the day you realize dolls are dolls. I pick up my old self and I see it's silly. A toy I've played with…
— John Fowles
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Tayend nodded. “I know it won’t. I admit I was worried about you, but you are still your old self, underneath.” Dannyl straightened in protest.…
— Trudi Canavan
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Remember me? I'm back to my old self again. No responsibilities, no attachments, no encumbrances. I don't want to own anything, love anyone, or get…
— Danielle Steel
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There was a burst of laughter so sudden Miri jumped to her feet in alarm. Bena and Liana had pushed Peder out of the bed…
— Shannon Hale
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To gain your heart's desire you have to lose some part of your old life, your old self. To do that you have to have…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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Through learning we grow, becoming more than we were before, and in that sense learning is unselfish, because it results in the transformation of what…
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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I have moments where I miss my old self. But I think anyone can get caught up in what we used to have. But at…
— Steve Gleason
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I wish my 15-year-old self had known about my allure to the opposite sex!
— Benedict Cumberbatch
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If I had any advice for my 16-year-old self, it would just be to stay strong, because acting is not an easy lifestyle, especially when…
— Melissa Benoist
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I recognise my old self in a lot of the letters I get from single women who are unrealistic about what they want.
— Mariella Frostrup
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The most difficult part of playing Christ was that I had to keep up the image around the clock. As soon as the picture finished,…
— Max von Sydow
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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
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Maybe growing up was really nothing more than growing away: from your old life, from your old self, from all those things that kept you…
— Jennifer E Smith
Who Wrote These Old Self Quotes
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