669 Self Quotes for You to Enjoy

Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self. Jeanette Winterson

People Outer Self Feel Many Whole

I work more now because at this time of my life I am not disturbed from my aim by outside pressures such as family, passionate relationships, dealing with 'who am I?' - those complications when one is searching for one's self. Jeanne Moreau

'Attaboys' help people. I am huge on attaboy. Confidence is the great ingredient to living and art, with fidelity to self. It's so important to surround yourself with people who give you confidence. Jeffrey Tambor

Art Great You Confidence Yourself People Surround Yourself Important Living Give Self Am Huge Surround Fidelity Ingredient Help Help People Who

'Empire of Self' is a loving portrait of a very difficult man. Jay Parini, himself a gifted novelist, poet and biographer, has gone very deep into the 'black energy' of Gore Vidal's relentless narcissism and megalomania. Parini envisions an epic battle between Vidal's angelic and demonic sides, yet there's very little of the angel in Vidal. Jerome Charyn

Man Battle Black Angel Poet Narcissism Energy Gone Difficult Sides Relentless Gifted Angelic Self Between Empire Gore Himself Demonic Very Loving Little Epic Jay Deep Novelist Portrait

Texas is where I found my musical self. Jerry Jeff Walker

Musical Self Texas Where Found

The overall concept of 'Only You' is a reflection on the illusion of love, how we confront, understand and manifest our self identities within relationships. Jihae

Love You Reflection Illusion Relationships Our Only Self Overall Concept Identities Within Understand How Manifest Confront

It excites me when a person puts their whole self in a song or rhyme, or instrument. It fills me. Jill Scott

Me Song Self Excites Puts Instrument Person Rhyme Whole Fills

All writing is propaganda for the self. Jill Soloway

Writing Propaganda Self

When you're strong physically, it improves your strength in every other facet of your life. You're more confident, your self-esteem is higher, and your self image is better. Jillian Michaels

Life Strength You Strong Better Every Other Facet More Physically Higher Self Self-Esteem Self-Image Improves Confident Your Image

There's a confidence and sense of self that comes with age that I didn't anticipate. Jillian Michaels

Confidence Age Sense Self Anticipate

But that's something that I like about scoring film: it makes me reach out of the parameters of my self, it requires me to do things musically that I wouldn't normally do left to my own devices. Jim Coleman

When I started writing, I was a great rationalist and believed I was absolutely in control. But the older one gets, the more confused, and for an artist I think that is quite a good thing: you allow in more of your instinctual self; your dreams, fantasies and memories. It's richer, in a way. John Banville

Dreams Good Great You Memories Writing Confused Control Older Think Way More Absolutely Good Thing Allow Self Instinctual Gets Artist Quite Fantasies Richer Your Your Dreams Believed Thing Started

Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored. John Berger

Together Must Bored Self Never Dogs Accustomed Your Chain Sausages

You always feel like your 18-year-old self in some sense. And that's what walking through New York on a June evening feels like - you feel like it's Friday, and you're 17 years old. John Darnielle

If you have children and want to give your future self a present, record their laughter as toddlers. When they're older and away from you, you might find that clip in the middle of the day, and it will transport you as surely as if you had a time machine. John Dickerson

Future Time Day You Will Laughter Older Machine Find Record Give Self Had Surely Clip Middle Children Want Might Toddlers Your Transport Away Present

Writers don't always know what they mean - that's why they write. Their work stands in for them. On the page, the reader meets the authoritative, perfected self; in life, the writer is lumbered with the uncertain, imperfect one. John Lahr

Life Work Meets Uncertain Imperfect Write Writer Writers Self Know Reader Always Authoritative Mean Them Page Stands Why

When we contemplate the heroes of Christianity, and compare our feeble efforts with their astonishing performance and self devotion, we should fall into despair, were there not a few softening features, by which they are brought back to the ranks of humanity. John Strachan

'Dance to the Music' was just Sly Stone being his natural crazy self right from the beginning. The man was an original and his first AM hit was nothing if it wasn't the example per excellence of the Sly Stone music machine. Jon Landau

The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense, and every particular affection of the heart, are equally interested or disinterested, because the objects of them all are equally self or somewhat else. Joseph Butler

Heart Affection Sense Every Else Object Objects Somewhat Self Term Particular Equally Because Self-Love Interested Disinterested Them Expressed Appetite

The other aspect of idealism is the one which gives us our notion of the absolute Self. To it the first is only preparatory. This second aspect is the one which from Kant, until the present time, has formed the deeper problem of thought. Josiah Royce

Time Problem Thought First Other Our Only Gives Absolute Self Idealism Until Which Formed Us Kant Aspect Notion Preparatory Deeper Present Second Present Time

I want to tell everyone that no matter what's keeping them from being their authentic self to hold on to the hope that there will be an end to that road. There will be a life where they can live their true self. Josie Totah

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