Quotes about Self

I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun.

I is only a convenient term for somebody who has no real being.

I will write, she had said, what I enjoy writing.

You are you. That is what consoles me for the lack of many things.

We'll never abandon ourselves to the Spirit as long as we think we can change without Him.

Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners

What we do flows from who we are.

It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by.

Every man's his own friend, my dear," replied Fagin, with his most insinuating grin. "He hasn't as good a one as himself anywhere." Except sometimes," replied Morris Bolter, assuming the air of a man of the world. "Some people are nobody's enemies but their own, yer know." Don't believe that!" said the Jew. "When a man's his own enemy, it's only because he's too much his own friend; not because he's careful for everybody but himself. Pooh! Pooh! There ain't such a thing in nature.

Don't believe that,' said Fagin. 'When a man's his own enemy, it's only because he's too much his own friend.

there are quiet victories and struggles, great sacrifices of self, and noble acts of heroism, in it - even in many of its apparent lightnesses and contradictions - not the less difficult to achieve, because they have no earthly chronicle or audience - done every day in nooks and corners, and in little households, and in men's and women's hearts - any one of which might reconcile the sternest man to such a world, and fill him with belief and hope in it

When a man's his own enemy, it's only because he's too much his own friend; not because he's careful for everybody but himself. Pooh! Pooh! There ain't such a thing in nature.