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Self Quotes by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
- A lover cannot be chosen a la smorgasbord. A lover has to be chosen from soul-craving. To choose just because something mouthwatering stands before ou…
- Be proud of your scars. They have everything to do with your strength, and what you've endured. They're a treasure map to the deep self.
- Anything you do from the soulful self will help lighten the burdens of the world. Anything. You have no idea what the smallest word, the…
- When a woman is exhorted to be compliant, cooperative, and quiet, to not make upset or go against the old guard, she is pressed into…
- Solitude is not an absence of energy or action, as some believe, but is rather a boon of wild provisions transmitted to us from the…
- I learned about the sacred art of self decoration with the monarch butterflies perched atop my head, lightning bugs as my night jewelry, and emerald-green…
- Like all other lonely or hungry things, ego loves the light. It sees light, and the possibility of being close to the soul, and it…
- The doors to the world of the wild Self are few but precious. If you have a deep scar, that is a door, if you…
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