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Self Quotes by Simone de Beauvoir
- The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength -each asking from…
- Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
- It's true that what you find in New York is something other than America. Only small towns and small countries are self-satisfied; a real capital…
- Even if one is neither vain nor self-obsessed, it is so extraordinary to be oneself - exactly oneself and no one else - and so…
- That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
- Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
- The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strengtheach asking from 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