Best Own Self Proverbs

328 Own Self quotes by 264 unique authors

My own self-consciousness cries out to me coldly: how does one love zero? — Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
People think they know the mystery of living in your skin. They don't. There's no one who knows except the person who carts it around… — Colum McCann
They attacked you? (Danger) No, I beat my own self up. What do you think? (Keller) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
I know that they're all unhappy because nobody loves the right person the way they should and because they don't understand that it's really their… — Muriel Barbery
As the great poet wrote, ‘To thine own self be true.’…What? You don’t think a Skotos can be literate? I happen to love Shakespeare. Hamlet… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
When it's new and important, you have to rest in between times. And anyway, even when I like a person there is a weariness that… — Elizabeth Berg
Once in a dream I saw a snake swallowing its own tail, it swallowed and swallowed until it got halfway round, and there it stopped… — Charles Bukowski
The library in summer is the most wonderful thing because there you get books on any subject and read them each for only as long… — Polly Horvath
As never before, he understood the vitality of tradition, the dignity of the worship of what had existed before one's own self had come into… — Nancy Holder
Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self. — Franz Kafka
Mirabelle is not affected by a man’s failures to approach her, as her own self-depreciating attitude never allows the idea that he would in the… — Steve Martin
As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every evil which may befall me;… — Giacomo Casanova
She had never realized any love save love as passion. Such love, though it expends itself in generosity and thoughtfulness, though it give birth to… — Thornton Wilder
If it is written and read with serious attention, a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation that… — Karen Armstrong
I often think that at the center of me is a voice that at last did split, a house in my heart so invaded with… — Lorrie Moore
If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which… — Marcus Aurelius
A certain kind of shittiness, a certain kind of stagnation, a certain kind of darkness, goes on propagating itself by its own power in its… — Haruki Murakami
It's not enough merely to exist. Every man has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble and to relize… — Albert Schweitzer
Lie still, lie still, my breaking heart; My silent heart, lie still and break: Life, and the world, and mine own self, are changed For… — Christina Rossetti
The highest, most decisive experience is to be alone with one's own self. You must be alone to find out what supports you, when you… — Carl Jung
Neither son loved the father for himself. They both were using the father for their own self-centered ends rather than loving, enjoying, and serving him… — Timothy Keller
You are honest enough by nature to be able to see and judge your own self clearly - and that is a great thing. Never… — Enid Blyton
And so, onwards... along a path of wisdom, with a hearty tread, a hearty confidence.. however you may be, be your own source of experience.… — Friedrich Nietzsche
No matter what you tell me, no matter how legitimate your reasons, I can never just forget about you, I can never push the years… — Haruki Murakami
I'd take a look at my own self in the mirror and wonder how it was possible that anybody could manage such an enormous thing… — Ken Kesey

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