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Self Quotes by Jeanette Winterson
- When I was born I became the visible corner of a folded map. The map has more than one route. More than one destination. The…
- Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self.
- There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.
- Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully.
- Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.
- I looked at my palms trying to see the other life, the parallel life. The point at which my selves broke away and one married…
- i realize that the future, though invisible, has weight. We are in the gravitational pull of past and future. It takes huge energy -speed of…
- Life…we understand it differently at different stages. It’s what is interesting about getting older, you realize your relationship with the past is always negotiable. There…
- I don't want to eke out my life like a resource in short supply. The only selfish life is a timid one. To hold back,…
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