Quotes about Self
Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.
— Oscar Wilde
And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
— Confucius
I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.
— Cormac McCarthy
Whatever voice spoke him was no demon but some old shed self that came yet from time to time in the name of sanity. a hand to gentle him back from the rim of his disastrous wrath.
— Cormac McCarthy
Themselves among others, everything in its place. Justified in the world.
— Cormac McCarthy
A man's at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with.
— Cormac McCarthy
She was nobody, there was no reality in herself, the reality was all outside of her, and she must apply herself to it.
— DH Lawrence
I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
— Walt Whitman
There is no God any more divine than Yourself.
— Walt Whitman
Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.
— Walt Whitman
The pleasures of heaven are with me, and the pains of hell are with me, The first I graft and increase upon myself ... the latter I translate into a new tongue.
— Walt Whitman
What is a man anyhow? what am I? what are you?
— Walt Whitman