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Self Quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert
- You are still young, so you think only of your own self. You do not notice the tribulations that occur all around you, to other…
- I have a rigid self-accountability. You have to work hard.
- Destiny, I feel, is also a relationship - a play between divine grace and willful self-effort.
- We don't realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace.
- the great lack of parity between husbands and wives has always been spawned by the disproportionate degree of self-sacrifice that women are willing to make…
- Well, I always tried to look nice and be feminine even in the worst tragedies and crisis, there's no reason to add to everyone's misery…
- You have now reached infatuation’s final destination—the complete and merciless devaluation of self.
- As for discipline—it's important, but sort of overrated. The more important virtue for a writer, I believe, is self-forgiveness. Because your writing will always disappoint…
- I want to explore the art of pleasure in Italy, the art of devotion in India and, in Indonesia, the art of balancing the two.…
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