Own Selves Quotes

40 Own Selves quotes by 36 unique authors

We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves. — Arthur Schopenhauer
To be enthusiastic about doing much with human nature is a foolish business indeed; and, throwing himself into his work as he was doing, and… — James Anthony Froude
These days we seem more bound to our bosses than ever before. We even identify our own selves with the jobs we do: 'What do… — Tom Hodgkinson
To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars;… — Andre Malraux
She had been looking all along for a friend, and it took her a while to discover that a lover was not a comrade and… — Toni Morrison
â€¦we all lie to ourselves; we tell our own selves more lies than we ever do other people. — Philip K. Dick
It's when we face for a moment the worst our kind can do, and shudder to know the taint in our own selves, that awe… — Denise Levertov
And that's where the whole trouble is. We're too much alike to understand each other because we don't even understand our own selves. — Betty Smith
All man are the same except for their belief in their own selves, regardless of what others may think of them — Miyamoto Musashi
Our problem is to become acquainted with our own selves, letting our personalities loose upon the world for the sheer adventure of their full development… — Norman Vincent Peale
We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own conceptâ€”our own selvesâ€”that we love. — Fernando Pessoa
Giving importance to what we think because we thought it, taking our own selves not only (to quote the Greek philosopher) as the measure of… — Fernando Pessoa
Certainly. But take this into consideration: of every ten problems we have, nine are created by our own selves - through guilt, self-punishment, self-pity. However,… — Paulo Coelho
Yet where is your inner value when you no longer know what it is to breathe freely; when you no longer have freedom over your… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Sometimes river flows very strong, sometimes it flows very small, but it makes no difference to the ocean because it is satisfied in itself with… — Radhanath Swami
For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent,… — Bible
To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves,… — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
People will always misinterprete our actions,words and decision. But we always have the right not to join them in criticizing our own selves. — Terry Mark

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