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Self Quotes by Alain de Botton
- Most of us still caged within careers chosen for us by our not entirely worldly 18-22 year old selves.
- Writing isn’t a career choice. It’s self-medication that over time precipitates the madness it was meant to ward off.
- The activities of drawing, eating and drinking, all involve assimilations by the self of desirable elements from the world, a transfer of goodness from without…
- Rather than teasing the buyers, we may blame the society in which they lived for setting up a situation where the purchase of ornate cabinets…
- Every fall into love involves the triumph of hope over self-knowledge. We fall in love hoping we won't find in another what we know is…
- what we call a home is merely any place that succeeds in making more consistenly available to us the important truths which the wider world…
- We depend on our surroundings obliquely to embody the moods and ideas we respect and then to remind us of them. We look to our…
- The assumption is that life doesn't need to be navigated with lessons. You can just do it intuitively. After all, you only need to achieve…
- It is not necessarily at home that we best encounter our true selves. The furniture insists that we cannot change because it does not; the…
More Self Quotes
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. — Arthur Ashe
- Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. — Isaac Asimov
- Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. — Francis of Assisi
- That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it… — Mary Astell
- Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. — Nancy Astor
- It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us… — David Attenborough
- Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up. — Dean Acheson
- A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower… — Marcus Aurelius
- What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken! — Jane Austen
- We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves,… — Paul Auster