Self: One cannot spend forever sitting and solving the mysteries of one's history. ~Lemony Snicket Self: One must have chaos within one to give birth to a dancing star. ~Friedrich Nietzsche Self: One's only real life is the life one never leads. ~Oscar Wilde Self: Only you can set you free. ~Living Colour Self: Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny. ~Eric Hoffer Self: People aren't ignoring you. They are busy with their lives. And the way to stop feeling ignored is to get busy with yours. ~Robert Brault Self: People wish to be settled: only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Self: Renew thyself completely each day; do it again, and again, and forever again. ~Chinese inscription cited by Thoreau in Self: Reputation is in itself only a farthing candle, of a wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit. ~James Russell Lowell Self: Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul. ~Henry Van Dyke Self: Self-delusion: short term self-protection in exchange for longer term self-destruction. ~Dr. Idel Dreimer Self: Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme. ~Daniel Defoe Self: Selfishness is a bottomless pit. ~James Lendall Basford Self: So you are lean and mean and resourceful and you continue to walk on the edge of the precipice because over the years you have become fascinated by how close you can walk without losing your balance. ~Attributed to Richard M. Nixon Self: Some things become so completely our own that we forget them. ~Antonio Porchia Self: Sometimes at night I light a lamp so as not to see. ~Antonio Porchia Self: Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living. ~Jonathan Safran Foer Self: Sometimes I feel like I'm going nowhere, in opposite directions. ~Terri Guillemets Self: Sometimes I feel like life misprinted me. ~Terri Guillemets Self: Sometimes I'm doing things considered crazy by others, but then my heart giggles. That's when I know I am doing the right thing. ~Dodinsky Self: Sometimes it's worth getting lost to see who will come looking for us. ~Robert Brault Self: Sometimes we give up a dream to play a larger role in someone else's dream. ~Robert Brault Self: Sometimes you can get so far in yourself that you don't know who you are. ~Henry Rollins Self: Sometimes you have to breakdown before you can breakthrough. ~Marilyn Ferguson Self: Sometimes, when I get too wrapped up in myself, I like to take a walk into town, and for an afternoon or so, just be the passing stranger in other people's lives. ~Robert Brault Self: Take the time to come home to yourself every day. ~Robin Casarjean Self: Take your work seriously, but never yourself. ~Margot Fonteyn Self: Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy. ~Henri Frederic Amiel Self: That's the thing about needs. Sometimes when you get them met, you don't need them anymore. ~Michael Patrick King Self: The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us. ~Robert Louis Stevenson Self: The Divine does not like to be shut up in a building. The Divine likes to be out in the open. It is right here in this very body. Each one of us is a miniature universe, a living shrine. ~Morihei Ueshiba Self: The finest thing in the world is knowing how to belong to oneself. ~Michel de Montaigne Self: The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss — an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. — is sure to be noticed. Self: The hardest prisons to break out of are the ones we build ourselves. ~Author unknown Self: The inward light is forever striving to gather enough additional light to penetrate the fog of our senses. ~Henry Stanley Haskins Self: The man that shows off, to that one who wants to convince of his value is to himself. ~Domenico Cieri Estrada Self: The mirror will only lie, when you look at it through a mask. ~Anthony Liccione Self: The only man we have any respect for is the man who uses all the endowment he has, and uses it until he bleeds. ~Martin H. Fischer Self: The only person you should ever compete with is yourself. You can't hope for a fairer match. ~Todd Ruthman Self: The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge. ~Eckhart Self: The peace you seek is there, it's there between all the traffic in your mind, stop and rest for peace will find you if you let it. ~Mike Dolan Self: The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course. ~Michelangelo Self: The ratio of matter, mind and spirit continually changes. ~James Lendall Basford Self: The simplest and most familiar truth seems new and wonderful the instant we ourselves experience it for the first time. ~Marie Dubsky, Freifrau von Ebner-Eschenbach Self: The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely. ~Lorraine Hansberry Self: The treasure of self is buried under the rainbow and yet glows beyond the sun. ~Terri Guillemets Self: The trick to liking who you are is not to hate too much the person it turned out you weren't. ~Robert Brault Self: The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual — namely to You. ~Walt Whitman Self: The words "I am" are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you. ~A.L. Kitselman Self: The world is not outside you. ~Ramana Maharshi Self: There are at least two kinds of cowards. One kind always lives with himself, afraid to face the world. The other kind lives with the world, afraid to face himself. ~Roscoe Snowden Self: There are plenty of people holding flashlights casting shadows, offering directions. Perhaps it's best if you light your own way. ~Jeb Dickerson Self: There comes a morning in life when you wake up a new person; that is to say, you wake up the same person but you realize it's your own fault. ~Robert Brault Self: There is a public me and a private me, who, if they were separate people, probably wouldn't exchange Christmas cards. ~Robert Brault Self: There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself. ~W. Somerset Maugham Self: There is as much difference between us and ourselves as between us and others. ~Michel de Montaigne Self: There is great security in the prisons we create for ourselves. ~Stephen G. Scalese Self: There is luxury in self-reproach.... When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us. ~Oscar Wilde Self: There is no reason why a man should show his life to the world. The world does not understand things.... I have said to you that to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies in much worse.... what is said of man is nothing. The point is, who says it. A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life. ~Oscar Wilde, letter to Lord Alfred Douglas ("Bosie") Self: There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. ~Hindustani Proverb Self: There is part of us that stands in quiet witness to what we do, taking notes, waiting for a solitary moment to bring up the subject. ~Robert Brault Self: There's nothing like self-improvement to get your friends to like you for who you were. ~Robert Brault Self: Things happen in life that make us question our faith when perhaps they ought to make us question our life. ~Robert Brault Self: Though confined to our destiny, we do get to pick the color scheme. ~Robert Brault Self: To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright. ~Walter Benjamin Self: To wash one's hair, make one's toilet, and put on scented robes; even if not a soul sees one, these preparations still produce an inner pleasure. ~Sei Shonagon Self: Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice. ~Lillian Hellman Self: Up to a point a man's life is shaped by environment, heredity, and movements and changes in the world about him. Then there comes a time when it lies within his grasp to shape the clay of his life into the sort of thing he wishes to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune, or the quirks of fate. Everyone has it within his power to say, "This I am today; that I will be tomorrow." ~Louis L'Amour Self: We all have to escape from this thing called life sometimes. Maybe we use substances to do it. Maybe we use religion. Maybe we use exercise. Maybe we use anger. But we all have to do it. blog, www.danoah.com Self: We all know the part of us that needs to be harnessed. It takes someone else to know the part of us that needs to be set free. ~Robert Brault Self: We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves. ~Jean Guitton Self: We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us. ~W.B. Yeats Self: We are known to our friends by a look in our eyes that we never see in a mirror. ~Robert Brault Self: We are lost if we get too much time to think about ourselves, provided that we regard ourselves not as an object of study, as a specimen, but always as everything that we now are. We become conscious of so much that is sad that at the thought of it we lose all inclination to bring the elements into order and connection. ~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Self: We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war. ~Charles Caleb Colton Self: We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves that we have no great ones. ~François VI de la Rochefoucault Self: We do not deal much in facts when we are contemplating ourselves. ~Mark Twain Self: We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be. ~Jane Austen Self: We must be our own before we can be another's. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Self: We sometimes feel that we have been really understood, but it was always long ago, by someone now dead. ~Mignon McLaughlin Self: We're all on different paths, but action is hard work and you must drive your own soul. ~Terri Guillemets Self: Were it in his power to choose another life and another soul, I am not sure, if he could have his own over again, whether he would take anybody else's. ~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Self: What an odd, ruminating, noisy, self-interrupting conversation we conduct with ourselves from birth to death. ~Diane Ackerman Self: What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne Self: What we do flows from who we are. ~Paul Vitale Self: When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep. Nay, and when I walk alone in a beautiful Orchard, if my Thoughts are some part of the Time taken up with strange Occurrences, I some part of the Time call them back again to my Walk, or to the Orchard, to the Sweetness of the Solitude, and to my self. ~Michel de Montaigne Self: When I look for my existence I do not look for it in myself. ~Antonio Porchia Self: When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something. ~Robert Browning Self: When they were in school, Peter used to say that everything you do is a self-portrait.... "The only thing an artist can do is describe his own face." You're doomed to being you. This, he says, leaves us free to draw anything, since we're only drawing ourselves. Your handwriting. The way you walk. Which china pattern you choose. It's all giving you away.... Everything is a self-portrait. ~Chuck Palahniuk Self: When you blame and criticize others, you are avoiding some truth about yourself. ~Deepak Chopra Self: With regard to our bad qualities there can be only perpetual warfare or disgraceful peace. ~Marie Dubsky, Freifrau von Ebner-Eschenbach Self: You grow up the day you have your first real laugh, at yourself. ~Ethel Barrymore Self: You have the Answer. Just get quiet enough to hear it. ~Pat Obuchowski Self: Your burden is of false self-identifications—abandon them all. ~Nisargadatta Maharaj Self: Your heart knows your song, but you have to be willing to listen to the words. Self: Your soul is all that you possess. Take it in hand and make something of it! ~Martin H. Fischer Self: Your spirit is the true shield. ~Morihei Ueshiba