Quotation Explorer - 'Myself'

Whoever has My commandments and keeps them loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and show Myself to him. - Anonymous

what it is...is a place where I can return to myself. It's enough of a scramble to get to...that the energy expended is significant, and it translates into a change in my body chemistry and my psychological chemistry and my heart chemistry... - Jay Salter

The mother who lay in the grave, was the mother of my infancy; the little creature in her arms, was myself, as I had once been, hushed for ever on her bosom. - Charles Dickens

...Who knows what death, anxiety of the living, Who knows what loneliness, end of the lovingI could say to myself of the love (I had): Let it not be immortal, since it is flame But let it be infinite while it lasts. - Vinicius de Moraes

To assume that I and I alone have all the answers is to eventually find myself entirely alone without any answers. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

I do not wish to talk about myself because I hold very deeply the belief that what is important is the work, not the person. - Remedios Varo

My life is a series of invitations accepted and invitations rejected, and the place I now find myself is often a result of accepting the wrong invitations and rejecting the right ones. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

A sense of calm came over me. More and more often I found myself thinking, "This is where I belong. This is what I came into this world to do. - Jane Goodall

When I am passing through hell, I have to remind myself of the last time I happened to be on that road. How quickly it was over, without any ingenuity on my part. After all, hell is a one-way street. The only direction forward is the way out. - R. N. Prasher

When I'm writing I don't want anyone else in the room - including myself. - Jonathan Franzen

I awoke one morning to find myself famous. - George Gordon Byron

I don't argue things being spiritual vs scientific, because I've never met anyone who knows enough about either to be convincing--including myself. - S. Kelley Harrell

I sustain myself with the love of family. - Maya Angelou

I soon had to admit that what I did by myself couldn't excite me, only what Lila touched became important. - Elena Ferrante

The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I'm not going to let myself pull me down anymore. - C. JoyBell C.

I am often amused and sometimes amazed by the free-reign constructs of my mind. That is why I converse regularly with myself - I am one of my better friends... - Gavin Mills

I sometimes ask these questions to myself: Are you chasing a dream just to prove that you can catch it? Will it really bring you happiness and fulfillment? Is it really your dream or just an illusion that you want to play on people's eyes? Isn't it time to forget it and embrace your real calling? - Jorge P. Guerrero

Only a blind man could have lived through these last years without seeing what was bearing down upon us; so I made myself blind as I could manage. I wanted to believe the worst was behind me, and I found an easy way to make it so. I simply turned my back on what was coming. - John Wray

I believe in a world where all these things can happen, even if I have to do them myself. - Adrian Lamo

Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he must read only the new or only the old, I would advise him to read the old. - C.S. Lewis

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell. - Edna St. Vincent Millay

It dawns on me that maybe I'm just terrifically lazy; that I might be appropriating other people’s invisible sicknesses and disorders and scribbling them on the clipboard at the end of my bed to fool the nurses; so I can indulge in rest cures all day, every day. That I’m even fooling myself. - Jalina Mhyana

I cannot calculate nor attempt to manage sacrifice, for to do so is to attempt to sacrifice comfortably. And it is in the attempt to sacrifice comfortably that I begin to realize that the desire for comfort is in reality the demand that I put myself first, and there is nothing of sacrifice in that. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

I am as I am, and that's all there is to it, I can hardly take a pair of scissors to myself, and cut out a different person... - Franz Kafka

I may not be perfect for you or the world but guess what I'm not perfect for myself either. I'm dead to you and the world just as I'm dead to myself.-p.b - Primrose Burrell

I became aware of a voice inside my head. [...] It was only later that I realized that this voice was my own thinking, that this moment of anguish was my first inkling that I was a ceaseless monologue trapped within myself. - Yann Martel

I don’t see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to do things for them, to have answers. - Tupac Shakur

I know I could be Anything,But i rather Be Myself. - Look Im A Cat

I have taken all my good deeds and all my bad deeds, and cast them … in a heap before the Lord, and fled from both, and betaken myself to the Lord Jesus Christ, and in him I have sweet peace! - David Dickson

give me a reason to get back to myself ,to return again . - litymunshi

i have learnt to live to please myself first instead of other people, when I lived to please others, I lay late in bed with my eyes open in the dark wondering who I was, now I know myself - Stan The Man SA

If I throw out a boathook from the boat and catch hold of the shore and pull, do I pull the shore to me, or do I pull myself to the shore? Prayer is not pulling God to my will, but the aligning of my will to the will of God. - E. Stanley Jones

[Detractors] are just wrong, and that's okay. They just don't see it yet. That's what I would tell myself to keep those moments of doubt, only moments. - Lisa Kudrow

I have done, this year, what I said I would: overcome my fear of facing a blank page day after day, acknowledging myself, in my deepest emotions, a writer, come what may. - Sylvia Plath

What will I do if I find myself with a heart?" "Lose it constantly, I imagine. - Gregory Maguire

Sometimes when I look at my children I say to myself, "Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin." - Lillian Carter

I can't seem to bring myself to say, "Well, I guess I'll be toddling along." It isn't that I can't toddle. It's that I can't guess I'll toddle. - Robert Benchley

I found myself tumbling down a 2000-foot face and my senses were so reduced. I couldn’t hear anything. It was totally peaceful. I was totally calm. - Travis Rice

I fail enough and I beat myself up enough. I don't need anybody else to do it for me. - Jared Leto

Defend myself? I cannot defend the verbal repressions of a boy. A curmudgeonly, cantankerous, ill-tempered, counterfeit boy. - Coco J. Ginger

I’m going inside of myself and never coming out. - Jennifer Elisabeth

O God, help me to believe the truth about myself, no matter how beautiful it is. - Macrina Wiederkehr

It's time that I stop referring to myself, thinking about myself, planning for myself, according to the gridlines and the timelines and the guidelines of people. I will expand in this universe, I will not stay on the lines nor within the lines written by this world. - C. JoyBell C.

Fue adondo a mi me perdieronquw logre por fin encontrarme?Was it where they lost methat I finally found myself? - Pablo Neruda

I myself always to keep alive I'll enjoy the beauty of nature at close quarters. - Tanmaya Guru

When I touch you, it makes me trembling.I feel like I've lost myself, existentially.Your lips on mine makes me feel likeI'm flying across the universe, without aimlessly. - Tamara Stamenkovic

And I withdrew into myself when I understood that they wanted to extract every thought in my head, one by one, like decayed teeth. - Alia Mamdouh

So was I once myself a swinger of birches.And so I dream of going back to be. - Robert Frost

When I listen and enjoy the deepest silence I hear the sound of universal love and lose myself completely. - Debasish Mridha

There are a lot of questions I keep asking myself about why I do comedy. I guess I laugh to keep from crying. And I guess if you ever get me crying, I might not stop. This is the way I look at tragedy or else I'll cry. - Bob Newhart

Over the years, I learned to smile or laugh when I was supposed to. I kept my true self hidden; I did not need to unleash my pain on the world around me. Instead, I taught myself to ignore it. I did not realize that the pain was eating away at my soul. - J.D. Stroube

I live my life in widening circlesthat reach out across the world.I may not complete this last onebut I give myself to it.I circle around God, around the primordial tower.I've been circling for thousands of yearsand I still don't know: am I a falcon,a storm, or a great song? - Rilke, Rainer Maria

I caused my husband's heart attack. In the middle of lovemaking I took the paper bag off my head. He dropped the Polaroid and keeled over and so did the hooker. It would have taken me half an hour to untie myself and call the paramedics, but fortunately the Great Dane could dial. - Joan Rivers

I don't drink to make others look better, I just drink to make myself feel prettier. - Brooke Bida

people say I'm running back to the thing that broke me, yeah he did, but I picked myself back up, now it's about fixing him. - Mya Waechtler

To be an end in myself is to bring an end to myself. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

I was burdened with an ever-growing heart on the verge of decay. To save myself, I had to give many pieces of my love away. I hope I can give it all to someone, someday. - Hubert Martin

I'm a weak man, Navani. I really am. If I give myself a few feet of leeway, I burst through all of my prohibitions. - Dalinar Kholin

I'm not always the best at expressing myself to you, so I'm taking advantage of the fact that I will be completely unresponsive when you read this, and therefore incapable of messing things up - Amy Plum

I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I loveIf you want me again look for me under your boot-soles.You will hardly know who I am or what I meanBut I shall be good health to you nonethelessAnd filter and fibre your blood. - Walt Whitman

All I have is me, myself and I and we are all getting really tired of each other. - Carl R White

and there were times when i felt lost,but that did not stop me,for the further i went ,the more i collected myselfas i walked awayand the more i walked awaythe closer i got it to all,,,and in the end, i became the journey,and like all journeys,i did not end, i justchanged my directions. - r.m drake

There was a moment in my life when I really wanted to kill myself. And there was one other moment when I was close to that. . . . But even in my most jaded times, I had some hope. - Gerard Way

Oddly, I found myself calmer than I'd been in a long while. Maybe it was simply because my muscles ached or maybe because I felt that nothing was more compelling than the stack of wood that was waiting in Camelli's garage. - Dee Williams

One of the most difficult things I ever did was learn to support myself through my whole range of emotional experiences without running away. - Vironika Tugaleva

I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself. - Michel de Montaigne

I'm afraid of time... I mean, I'm afraid of not having enough time. Not enough time to understand people, how they really are, or to be understood myself. I'm afraid of the quick judgements or mistakes everybody makes. You can't fix them without time. I'm afraid of seeing snapshots, not movies. - Ann Brashares

I tried on different versions of myself. I was so many different girls... - Jennifer Elisabeth

One day when I was praying, it suddenly occurred to me thatI was talking to myself. - Peter O' Toole

Weary of myself, and sick of asking What I am, and what I ought to be, At this vessel's prow I stand, which bears me Forwards, forwards, o'er the starlit sea. - Matthew Arnold

In the stillness of the mind, I saw myself as I am: unbound. - Nisargadatta Maharaj

I Am In Love With Myself, With My Heart. - Nirav Sanchaniya

Within a week I walked the streets of Tel-Aviv, I wandered around Budapest and found myself admiring the Architecture of Paris. That's the power of great literature. - Byron Ortiz

My father chose my name , and my last name was chosen by my ancestors . That’s enough, I myself choose my way - Ali Shariati - علی شریعتی

The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept. - George Carlin

When things get unbearable, I wrap myself into a tight ball and shut my eyes. Every muscle in my body is tense. I open my eyes and I'm still where I was when I closed them to escape. Nothing's changed. - Elizabeth Wurtzel

I wish I could say that everything I do is for God’s glory but I can’t. And neither can you. What I can say is Jesus’ blood covers all my efforts to glorify myself. - Tullian Tchividjian

I bleed myself to be your drink:Is not the blood of poets—ink? - William Soutar

I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell-you see, I have friends in both places. - Mark Twain

I always try to cheer myself up by singing when i get sad. Most of the time, it turns out that my voice is worse than my problems. - Anonymous

When I'm trusting and being myself... everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously. - Shakti Gawain

To embrace an attitude of humility is to free myself from myself. And that is likely the great liberation of all. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

I sometimes wake in the early morning & listen to the soft breathing of my child & I think to myself, this is one thing I will never regret & I carry that quiet with me all day long. - Brian Andreas

I was thought to be 'stuck up.' I wasn't. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure. - Bette Davis

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I am very happyBecause I have conquered myselfAnd not the world.I am very happyBecause I have loved the worldAnd not myself. - Sri Chinmoy

Do you think that God would separate me from my husband if I killed myself? I feel as though I am going out of my mind at times. Wouldn’t God understand that I just want to be with him? - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Out in the fjord I dragged myself up at once, wet with fever and exhaustion, and gazed landwards, and bade farewell for the present to the town – to Christiania, where the windows gleamed so brightly in all the homes. - Knut Hamsun

I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life. - Mahatma Gandhi

Not, how much of my money will I give to God, but, how much of God’s money will I keep for myself? - John Wesley

I stopped explaining myself when I realized other people only understand from their level of perception. - Anonymous

I am forever fettered to myself [...] and that's what I must try to live with. - Franz Kafka

Thank you very Much, I enjoyed myself - Richard Feynman

I require myself not to be equal to the best, but to be better then the bad. - Seneca

When I wake I ask myself, how much longer before they will just let me die?" - Tier, Clutch - J.A. Huss

When writing the constitution for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, John Adams wrote:I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading. - John Adams

I find myself enjoying being alone a lot of the time, people come and people go and you have to find a way to be ok with both. - Nikki Rowe

My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself... - Trieu Thi Trinh

My life has been one great big joke,A dance that's walked,A song that's spoke,I laugh so hard I almost choke,When I think about myself. - Maya Angelou

It took me twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public. - George Bernard Shaw

I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me instead of looking within myself to see what was there. - Belle Livingstone

It's not that I can't express myself,it's that I still feel present when I'm not expressing myself. - Kim Myungsoo

Well, I myself am a 100% atheist. And I am increasingly worried that the Israeli-Palestinian struggle, which dominates our entire life, is assuming a more and more religious character. - Uri Avnery

Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring. - William Alexander

Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself. - Rita Mae Brown

I think grief and fear are going to come to him suddenly. They'll be undiluted and words won't work. We're all going to get hit and won't know how to hit back. I wish I knew the answers, how to help myself and the people who will hurt all around me. - Kaui Hart Hemmings

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good. - Oprah Winfrey

I am satisfied-For the peace that has graciously engulfed my tender heart.I am home-Because of the abundance of love that I have given myself.I am enlightened-For the journey I have embarked in knowing my higher self.I am complete-Because I now realize that I was always whole. - Karen A. Baquiran

I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught. - Georgia O'Keeffe

It often is better to ask an ancient Hebrew goatherd, instead of a so-called expert like myself, about the meaning of a particular, biblical story. - Richard Gist

I simply can’t look into the heavens on a crisp starry night and somehow bring myself to believe that the gaping expanse that engulfs the whole of me is the product of chance happenstance. And neither can I believe that the gaping expanse that rests within me is anything less. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

As a rationalist, pragmatist, and a scientist I rarely involve myself in the cosmological arguments of the creation of the universe. - Debasish Mridha

Me as a woman liking myself, is an act of social defiance! - Hannah Witton

Harboring bitterness against people is actually confessing their sin to myself, over and over again. Anger is akin to confessing their sin to God, dissatisfied that he hasn't done something and placing myself in his position as judge. - Paul David Tripp

I had a dream I was awake and I woke up to find myself asleep. - Stan Laurel

If I am not for myself, who will be? - Pirke Avoth

May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies. - Voltaire

When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes. - W. H. Auden

You'll have to leave my meals on a tray outside the door because I'll beworking pretty late on the secret of making myself invisible, which may take me almost until eleven o'clock. - S.J. Perelman

You can hear my dreams? God, you must never get any quiet. I'd be shooting myself in the head if I were you. - Jeaniene Frost

I did not want to appear before the world as pathetic, deprssed, and psychologically ill. So I erected a barrier of words and wit around myself, so that nobody could see how needy I really was. - Karen Armstrong

I don't even understand the connection with 'died for your sins'. He died for your sin, well, how does one affect the other? 'I hit myself in the foot with a shovel for your mortgage'... - Doug Stanhope

I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. - Henry David Thoreau

Lucien took the cigar and lit it, in the Spanish fashion, from that of the priest. "He is right," Lucien thought; "there is plenty of time to kill myself. - Honoré de Balzac

I may no explain you much about myself but we both have one thing in common & its tears. - Srinivas Shenoy

If you know that I am an unbeliever, then you know me better than I do myself. I may be an unbeliever, but I am an unbeliever who has a nostalgia for a belief. - Pier Paolo Pasolini

What in the world would ever lead to me believe that life is a series of opportunities that are readily available to everyone else but me? What really leads me to believe such an atrocious lie is that I don’t believe in myself sufficiently to engage those opportunities in the first place. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

I sometimes get hassled for using the term "fat" but I also use the term "crazy" to describe myself and I'm fine with that because I'm taking those words back. I'm also taking "sexy" back because, frankly, Justin Timberlake has had it too long and he doesn't even need it. - Jenny Lawson

People say how do you live alone? My response-I have time for myself not for loneliness... - Ankit_pandey

I no longer agree to treat myself with disrespect. Every time a self-critical thought comes to mind, I will forgive the Judge and follow this comment with words of praise, self-acceptance, and love. - Miguel Ruiz

Somedays I ask myself why do I spend hours in the gym, then I look in the mirror and think "Damn I look good! - Augusta DeJuan Hathaway

I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black; it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect. - June Jordan

Someone else's vision will never be as good as your own vision of your self. Live and die with it 'cause in the end it’s all you have. Lose it and you lose yourself and everything else. I should have listened to myself. - Georgia O'Keeffe

I feel the need to endanger myself every so often. - Tim Daly

I spent most of my life trying to specialize myself. I went to theater school, film school, music school, mime school ... Finally, I was able to gather enough knowledge to build the confidence to create my own work, that goes utterly against the sense of specialization. - Nuno Roque

I believed I was too sensitive and weak. To prove I wasn’t a victim anymore, I moved closer to painful experiences rather than away from them. Remaining in harm’s way and exposing myself to more pain kept me in the victim role rather than moving me out of it. - Christina Enevoldsen

My main hope for myself is to be where I am.

I want to escape from myself. For when I do start up and stare myself seedily in the face, as happens to be my case at present, my blankness is inconceivable--indescribable--my misery amazing. - Charles Dickens

I write because I want to give strength to myself - Anamika Mishra

Minister: As I was saying, Alex, you can be instrumental in changing the public verdict. Do you understand, Alex? Have I made myself clear?Alex: As an unmuddied lake, Fred. As clear as an azure sky of deepest summer. You can rely on me, Fred. - Anthony Burgess

I kept trying to talk myself out of my second thoughts when they were trying to help me. My advice? When it comes to relationships, second thoughts should be promoted. - Deb Caletti

I decided with this new awareness to dedicate my day to moving at my own natural, calm pace, and not pressuring myself to get going, get moving, or hurry up at all, something quite different from what I otherwise did. - Sonia Choquette

I write in order to comprehend, not to express myself. - Anna Kamieńska

My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions. - Eartha Kitt

I never stop myself from doing something because I’m afraid of what people might think. - Zooey Deschanel

Sometimes, I present myself as an expert and talk non-sense. To be honest, passing out hugs is far better than passing judgements. TRY THIS! - Saurabh Sharma

I climb the door instead of a treeJust to crawl with myself walking freeWhat if I’m a lizard beneath my skinChanging my colours of the human I’ve been - Munia Khan

All the music I write is a search for myself. - Bruce Hornsby

I often think of the image only I can see now, and of which I’ve never spoken. It’s always there, in the same silence, amazing. It’s the only image of myself I like, the only one in which I recognize myself, in which I delight - Marguerite Duras

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it. - H. L. Mencken

If an artist is not only he who sings or paints, but he whow express himself by words or illustrations then I can consider myself as one. - Amen Muffler

One day I had nothing but my childhood to defend myself………. - Sameh Elsayed

i found god in myself& i loved her/ i loved her fiercely - Ntozake Shange

Shame is a powerful feeling. There is a tremendous difference between making a mistake and believing you are a mistake...If I don’t see myself as being a mistake then it is I who must take responsibility and I am not ready to accept that. - David W. Earle

Oh my love, pure and divine love,I want to drown in youand then get lost,to find myself again and again,as a symbol and source of love,pure, blissful and divine. - Debasish Mridha

My head phones always allow me to listen to myself - Saahil Prem

A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit. - David Sedaris

When I was your age...I wish I'd known that I already had everything I needed within myself to be happy, instead of looking for happiness at beauty counters. - Ilene Beckerman

I went to Guatemala to help build a school but left wondering what "help" would really look like... I hadn't prepared myself for how humbled I'd feel, or how hard it would be to find my footing when witnessing a cycle of poverty that seemed to defy any sort of help. - Dee Williams

It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself. - Joyce Maynard

Ah men,why do you want all this attention?I can write poems for myself, make love to a doorknob if absolutelynecessary. What do you have to offer meI can't find otherwiseexcept humiliation? Which I no longerneed. - Margaret Atwood

Sometimes I scare myself at how easily I slip inside my mind and live vicariously through these characters. - Teresa Mummert

I lost a lot of people when I found myself. - Nikki Rowe

I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. - J. K. Rowling

I've been playing in the field of life on my own for a while now and it's fair to say I have gained myself along the way, I gotta admit though, after all this time I am damn well excited to fall insanely inLove with someone who knows how to take my breath away. - Nikki Rowe

Stories aren't facts, Cait, they're not details. Stories are feelings. You've got your feelings, haven't you?""Too many," I said."Well, that's all you need." He put his hand on mine. "Cry yourself a story, love. It works. Believe me."So that's what I did, I cried myself a story.And this is it. - Kevin Brooks

I scroll through iPhone photos and see that if I delete pictures of myself with a double chin, I will erase all proof of my glorious life. - Helen Ellis

I used to call myself a single-issue voter on the essential question of defending civilization against its terrorist enemies and their totalitarian protectors, and on that 'issue' I hope I can continue to expose and oppose any ambiguity. - Christopher Hitchens

Mr. Speaker, I once again find myself compelled to vote against the annual budget resolution for a very simple reason: it makes government bigger. - Ron Paul

Egoism [Ahamkar: Aham=I; kar=did] means ‘I did’. Where one is not the doer and he says, ‘I did’; that is egoism. To do egoism and to walk around with an inflated chest is pride (maan) and then to go on telling others ‘I did it myself’, is known as pride with my-ness (abhiman). - Dada Bhagwan

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. - George Bernard Shaw

I don't have to kill myself, living my life is just the same. - Aaron Scheerer

I consider myself an American African because we did not come by choice. - Alafia Stewart

I could never understand what was going on in my dreams I couldn’t control the happenings, it’s like I just stood there glued to the ground watching everything around me move and evolve into different scenarios. I was a ghost of myself watching life unravel before my own eyes... - JaszCab.

I don't assign myself to the names of any religious or non religious groups I prefer my actions and beliefs to be manic or marvelous just like me - Stanley Victor Paskavich

I consider myself a green party supporter...because green represents my favorite color other than clear. And I met a guy who was running for the green party this one time, and he seemed like he had a great head on his shoulders for a homeless guy. - Vernon D. Burns

I'd rater share the glory of a hit than star by myself in a flop - Kate Jackson

I had tried to express myself, but couldn't do that because I was afraid that it will hurt someone. I never knew that not expressing myself hurt myself. - Nutan Bajracharya

I have made plenty of enemies in my lifetime, but none has ever done me as much injury as I do myself. - Kathryn L. Nelson

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a Republican. But I repeat myself. - Harry Truman

So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily. - Ray Bradbury

I know many people who believe in God, and I expected to find Him on my way to the South Pole if he exists. My religious experiences were very different however, [only] involving myself, nature and the universe. - Liv Arnesen

The worst thing that I can do is humanize God. The second worst thing that I can do is deify myself. And the best thing that I can do is to avoid both. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

I am an artist, my hair is rarely tamed & sometimes I sleep till noon, My house is messy and I speak to the moon. I care less about the materials that I share with my world and more about the passion inside myself. Im an artist, what more can you expect? i am full of soul, love and all the rest. - Nikki Rowe

Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) - Walt Whitman

I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All. - Plotinus

Some part of me knew that I could play this part well, or better than well. But I was almost afraid to play it. The line between stage and life was so fragile here that I felt a risk of losing myself somehow. - J.B. Cheaney

It wasn't until I look inside myself that I found the truth of it all. - Anthony L. Williamms

I love digging myself into books because the moment I'm drifted from reality, I'm in a different world and I'm a different person. - Nathalie M. Llanto

I would often invent this dream for myself at the edge of sleep, and then it was strange how content it would make me, how it would make peace and consolation flow, and I would close my eyes and float on it into my real dreams which were never so kind [...]. - Alice Munro

Instead of saying, "I'm damaged, I'm broken, I have trust issues" say "I'm healing, I'm rediscovering myself, I'm starting over. - Horacio Jones

I give myself sometimes admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it. - Mary Wortley Montagu

Personally, I like to sleep. And I intend to appropriately confine myself more and more to my living quarters and pass my life away sleeping. - Tsunetomo Yamamoto

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore and diverting himself and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary while the greater ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

If the world gets any smaller I'll end up living next door to myself. - Tom Robbins

I'm not reinventing myself. I'm finding myself. There's a difference! - Michele Jennae

I'd like to dividemyself in order to see,among these mountains,each and every flowerof every cherry tree. - Saigyō

I see myself as Kiki de Montparnasse, trying to get Man Ray's attention. (Sofia Navarro, 7th July 2012). - Sofía Navarro

I love you, that is important to me. You love me or not its your matter. Remember I can control only myself, not you at all. - Debasish Mridha

I don't want to wrap myself in the flag, because I'm afraid I'll get burned.

I myself not dwells, the only people are dwells in underlying aim of my each work. - Tanmaya Guru

It was the first time I was ever in love, and I learned a lot. Before that I'd never even thought about killing myself. - Steven Wright

I like to reinvent myself — it’s part of my job. - Karl Lagerfeld

I just could not leave the people who ever fill my heart. But if people leave, well, like today myself. That's why I'm afraid to get acquainted with a lot of people because I'm afraid of losing a lot of people too. In reality I always get acquainted with many people, how is this? - Vea Dreamer

I’ve often lost faith in myself, I’ve never lost it in my family - David Sedaris

When we first met, I didn't want to get involved with anyone. I didn't have the time or energy, and I wasn't sure that I was ready for it. But you were so good to me, and I got swept up in that. And little by little, I found myself falling in love with you. - Nicholas Sparks

I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days. - Lois McMaster Bujold

I protect myself by refusing to know myself. - Floriano Martins

I had to come to terms with the fact that I wouldn’t have peace with myself until I found a way to like myself. - Michael Barbarulo

I constantly reminded myself with the fact that the world isn't about what's fair, but how you cope with what is unfair. - Hiro0911

Renee loved to do things. That was mysterious to me, since I was more comfortable talking about things and never doing them. She liked passion. She liked adventure. I cowered from passion and talked myself out of adventure. - Rob Sheffield

I exist as I am, that is enough,If no other in the world be aware I sit content,And if each and all be aware I sit content.One world is aware, and by the far the largest to me, and that is myself. - Walt Whitman

Solitude became, for me, an interesting mosaic of broken pieces, a place where the neglected parts of myself get collected—for better and for worse, sometimes barely tolerated and sometimes arranged into lovely patterns. - Laurie A. Helgoe

I'm sorry for breaking down when I should've been stitching myself back up - Real Friends

I find relief from the questions only when I concede that I am not obliged to know everything. I remind myself it is sufficient to know what I know, and that what I know, may not always be true. - Maya Angelou

Basically, that's why I wrote: to save my ass, to save my ass from the madhouse, from the streets, from myself. - Charles Bukowski

Tests were always easy for me. I saw them as games, saw myself as being in a contest against a mythical adversary, and welcomed the challenge. - Walter Dean Myers

This town of churches and dreams; this town I thought I would lose myself in, with its backward ways and winding roads leading to nowhere; but, I found myself instead. -Magic in the Backyard (excerpt from American Honey) - Kellie Elmore

I had had my night of weeping...I had purged myself of useless emotions that terrible night, now every nerve every sinew, every thought was bent on a single purpose - Elizabeth Peters

doesn't cease to exist the moment she gets married. I am not giving myself away. I belong to myself and I always shall. - Benazir Bhutto

I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you. - George Bernard Shaw

...hope nourishes while loss empties a person out," he said.... "Lila, my love, my love,...lay down your weapons. Don't punish us because I told myself a different story than the one you told yourself. - Anat Talshir

When, at last, I ceased to be myself, I came to be. - Kamand Kojouri

If someone asks you that "Where do u want to see yourself 10 years from now down this line"?Well,i would like to see myself above the line,that should be your answer. - Sachin Panwar

I've never been able to understand 'faith' myself, nor to see how a just God could expect his creatures to pick the one true religion out of an infinitude of false ones - by faith alone. It strikes me as a sloppy way to run an organization, whether universe or a smaller one. - Robert A. Heinlein

Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. - Mark Twain

I would have died, before a literary agent ever committed to my book. This is why I chose to empower myself by self publishing. - Mary Sage Nguyen

Resolved, to study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly and frequently, as that I may find, and plainly perceive myself to grow in the knowledge of the same. - Jonathan Edwards

I required kindness and sympathy, but I did not believe myself utterly unworthy of it. - Mary Shelley

There was a moment in my life when I really wanted to kill myself. And there was one other moment when I was close to that. . . . But even in my most jaded times, I had some hope and that was him. - Yuvika Mathur

Clarity in my cup. Transparency of my soul. Lucidity of myself. Elixir of the ages. Tea makes us all sages. - Dharlene Marie Fahl

The only reason I am successful is because I have stayed true to myself. - Lindsey Stirling

I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free. - Georgia O'Keeffe

Sometimes, I cannot control myself. Please do not blame me, its not me. Maybe it is someone who knows better about me. - Santosh Kalwar

She isn't like any of the girls I ever knew, or any of the girls I was myself. - L.M. Montgomery

Even when I try to stir myself up, I just get irritated because I can't make anything come out. And in the middle of the night I lie here thinking about all this. If I don't get back on track somehow, I'm dead, that's the sense I get. There isn't a single strong emotion inside me. - Banana Yoshimoto

I'm going to treat myself to one of these as a reward for not knocking himself unconscious with a skillet. - Nora Roberts

I destroyed myself because I thought no one will destroy me that way but I guess I was wrong... they're stonger. - Marivil

The problem isn’t that I think so highly of myself. It is just that you think so little of yourself. Live life BIG, BOLD and OUT LOUD! - Shannon L. Alder

To declare myself as a genius immediately evidences that I am not. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

I laugh at myself. I don't take myself completely seriously. I think that's another quality that people have to hold on to... you have to laugh, especially at yourself. - Madonna

I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. - Leo Tolstoy

I took a breath and let it go and suddenly the air was crisper and my lungs lighter and suddenly there was him saying my name in different ways and I catch myself throwing glances in the mirror, seeing someone I don’t know quite yet but I can’t wait to, and that is the start of everything. - Charlotte Eriksson

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions. - Augusten Burroughs

The only reason I can’t jump in and engage life is that I’ve told myself I can’t. Yet I can’t helping wondering would happen if I told myself I could? - Craig D. Lounsbrough

Affirmation 4 us: I appreciate myself, and I am honored to be me because I am a perfect extension of God. - Katina Marshell Cotton-Sliwa

The mere fact that I exist means that I deserve to be here and to express myself any damn why I please. - Euphoria Godsent

Prayer is one action where I lay aside my abilities to immerse myself wholly in God’s capabilities. And the liberation found in such an action is less about being engaged with God and more about being freed from myself. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

They said my dreams were too insignificant to matter, and they might just be right. The thing however is, I owe it to myself to find out if they are. The only way I can do that is to keep dreaming and living my dream. If in the end they are right, at least I can tell myself I did my best. - Bidemi Mark-Mordi

Someday i'm gonna say i used to be myself. - Ribecca

Within you, I lost myself. Without you, I found myself wanting to be lost again. - ZAKIYA AND MAJID

The point that I think myself to be so terribly clever is the precise point at which I am beginning to think myself to be god-like, which causes me to become God-less. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

I spend my nights thinking the worstAnd telling myself that everything's going to work outI keep kicking myself in the mouthOpening up every cut that should be a scar by now - Real Friends

I have forced myself to begin writing when I've been utterly exhausted, when I've felt my soul as thin as a playing card…and somehow the activity of writing changes everything. - Joyce Carol Oates

A soul needs a purpose to live and so I concluded that my purpose was to kill everyone besides myself. I felt alive.--Gaara - Masashi Kishimoto

Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy —the joy of being — and I ask myself in rapture: What wonderful things is this going to accomplish today? - Salvador Dalí

Ray, don't get mad just because I say yes to life. I like to keep myself available to the universe, because it brings me wisdom. Maybe you don't just want me to soar. - Douglas Coupland

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like hell. - Edna St. Vincent Millay

The thought of never crossing your path again is to enormous to bare, so for now I'll make dreams in my heart and remind myself to go and sit & remember them every once in a while. - Nikki Rowe

To embrace the message of Christmas is to throw off my hedonistic rebellion and bow before the chafing reality that I can't save myself, and in that very act to be suddenly taken aback in that I've stumbled upon the very freedom I've longed for in the very place I'd least expected it. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

Today I’m going… but one day I’ll back to prove myself, who I’m... - Adeel Ahmed

Sometimes, I marvel at the wonderof how graceful words seem to appearpen to paper; in others' handsAnd I think to myself-oh, how obsolete my existence is,to be unable to do the same. - Joy Chua

As the voices fall silent, the individuals who make up the amorphous and always changing community must decide for themselves, as they always have. I can’t write a coda because I can’t speak for others. I can only and ever speak for myself. - G.R. Reader

Humility is not thinking less of myself, but thinking about myself less. - Anonymous

When I sit down and write, I do it to relieve myself of the madness that burdens me so that new words can wrap me in newer, better, madness. - George Ivanovic

You look after your empire; I'll look after myself.

The saying goes that for a wound caused by dog bite to heal you have to eat that same dog, and I did scoop up a mouthful for myself - Han Kang, The Vegetarian

When I Find Myself in A Depressed State, I Try and Write to Feel Better. However, If Writing Doesn't Work, Then You Can Almost Always Catch Me Watching Cartoons on Television, Like Scooby-Dooby-Do or The Munster’s. Unfortunately, I Am Watching These Programs Nearly Every Day. - Chris Mentillo

To wait is to wisely resign myself to the fact that my ‘timetable’ is too often a ‘table’ with two legs that won’t stand up no matter how much ‘time’ I give it. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

He left that morning, the last words still echoing in my head, and though he said he’d come back one day I know a broken promise from a right one for I have used them myself and there is no coming back. Minds like ours are can’t be tamed and the price for freedom is the price we pay. - Charlotte Eriksson

Want To Be A Constant State Of Unconscious Mind To Know Myself. - venky Naidu

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up. - Pearl Buck

The characters in my novels are my own unrealised possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them. Each one has crossed a border that I myself have circumvented. - Milan Kundera

Lord, my life is but a mist (James 4:14), yet through Your power, the things I give myself to can have an eternal impact. I am Your vessel - Paige Omartian

I want to introduce myself to every freckle on your body. - Wendy Higgins

One day I realized, I am what I'm looking for. The love I've been searching the world for. When I devoutly love myself it's fulfilling, and it attracts others. They fight to love me twice as much. - Euphoria Godsent

How I describe myself??I guy who likes to be in state of confuse, being confuse makes me incredible in thinking! - Deyth Banger

Neither one nor the other, I am, I was and I'll remain myself - Stromae

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince. - Edgar Allan Poe

All of the years I spent trying to be someone you could be proud of would have been better spent being proud of myself for who I already was. - Paula Heller Garland

Despite my height, ignorance, heartbreaks, insecurity, criticism, competition, my skin color, that voice in my head that says 'No way', bad luck, a tight budget, insults, fear, flaws, failure and opposition. I believe in myself. - Manasa Rao Saarloos

I would not be myself without writing. - Mary Sage Nguyen

As the genuine religious impulse becomes dominant, adoration more and more takes charge. 'I come to seek God because I need Him', may be an adequate formula for prayer. 'I come to adore His splendour, and fling myself and all that I have at His feet', is the only possible formula for worship. - Evelyn Underhill

My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself to the usual lot of women who bow their heads and become concubines. - Trieu Thi Choi

Doesn't seem quite real. It's not meaningful. I can't quite imagine myself being 73. That's the age my father was! [Laughter.] How can I be his age? It's weird. - Don DeLillo

I was running in circles, I hurt myself, just to find my purpose. Everything was so worthless, I didn't deserve this, but to me you were perfect. - Hollywood

You've broke me so many times, that putting myself back together, isn't the hard part anymore. I can do it with my eyes closed. The hardest part is watching you dangle from your own eyelids, trying to escape the mistake of planting me there.When I bloomed you left, like a cold wind. - Amber Dawn H.

This is when I became myself. The girl before this time is a shadow, like a soul who is practicing how not to become. She is the background, the hole in the fabric from which the real shape is cut. - Gabriel Weston

long ago said, 'who dares not speak his free thought is a slave.' I nominated myself as an 'infidel' as a challenge to thought for those who are asleep. Luther Burbank - Euripides

I am satisfied, and sufficiently occupied with the things which are, without tormenting or troubling myself about those which may indeed be, but of which I have no evidence. - Thomas Jefferson

I do press junkets and people will tell me what I've supposedly said in articles and I always disagree with myself. 'Why in the world would I say that?' - Meg Ryan

If I would have to give an 'occupation', a 'vocation' for MySelf then, that would be a ... 'Mind Beautician' ... 'Αἰσθητικός Νόησις' ...Yes, I rather enJOY what that ENtails !"~ Ale3ia - Chevalieuse de Faeinoterre Helia

But I had to think to myself that this was normal, because that was the attitude. I was 19 when I went to see my doctor and I was told it was all in the mind.[Author on being told her endometriosis was imagined pain, From Oct 2009 Daily Mail interview] - Hilary Mantel

Racists will always call you a racist when you identify their racism. To love yourself now - is a form of racism. We are the only people who are criticized for loving ourselves. and white people think when you love yourself you hate them. No, when I love myself they become irrelevant to me. - John Henrik Clarke

I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me. - William Blake

When I was on "StarSearch", one of the producers told the other contestants, "She'll never be famous; she's too tough, she's too New York, and she's too heavy." And I remember thinking, "Gosh, he's gonna feel like a jerk when I'm famous. Through the negativity I learned to hear myself quite loudly. - Rosie O'Donnell

I thought myself sufficiently shrewd to make whatever decisions I wanted to make, and then to be able to sufficiently steer those decisions away from the rather dark and nasty places they would naturally take me. And I stand oddly perplexed that suddenly everything around me is dark and nasty. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

My mistakes were because I was selfless. I wanted to complete someone else, I didn’t think about completing myself. - Dominic Riccitello

I cannot bring myself to judge those who are defending their lands against an immoral violent foreign invader. The fact that the immoral violent foreign invader happens to be the U.S. government does not alter my view. - Dave Champion

Myself, I prefer life without fires, without nocturnal panics. - Juvenal

I am yours.Don't give myself back to me. - Jalaluddin Rumi

I write and that way rid myself of me and then at last I can rest. - Clarice Lispector

All I ever really wanted to do was arouse souls through my writing and enjoy my journey to becoming one with myself and with the world. - Terry A. O'Neal

—And you completely blow me away and rip my world up and everything else, and then you go back to ignoring me. I blew you away? I squeak out before I can stop myself. He stares at me steadily. You blew everything away. - Lauren Oliver

I dream that one day I would be a published writer and people would read my books - if not, I would be living in the mountains in a small hut, near a pond where swans swim, writing a diary for myself. - Srinidhi.R

Today did take the time to say: "I believe in myself," at least 20 times today? You can never say it too much. - Mark F. LaMoure

It does not make any sense to talk with a common sense to a person who has almost all thinking common with almost all people all the time, and remains confined within own circumference of ‘I’, ‘ME’ and ‘Myself’ and often has the view or sentence with the word ‘YOU’. - Anuj Somany

Self-correction makes me check the ruler of my life against the yardstick of my inner voice. I acknowledge when I don’t measure up. Self-correction is an ongoing process. If done often enough, I can stop myself from straying off the path. - Stella Payton

I felt the need to distance myself from my problems, instead of dealing with them. My mother said It’s not uncommon for people to run away from their fears to start somewhere new with a better attitude. - Documentary Recordings

I'm a chamaleon, ever-changing, always evolving, and eager for the next phase of metamorphosis. This is me, imperfections, inconsistencies, passion, and desires. I make myself happen, because if I didn't you can be damned sure nobody else would. - Sai Marie Johnson

I find myself anticipating a new kind of storyteller, on who is half hacker, half bard. - Janet H. Murray

The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I hesitate to call myself a sex symbol. Lord help the sex symbol world if I'm one of them.

The power of the human mind is unstoppable. It can make bad things Great and good things Worst! Use it accordingly. - myselfRMD - Rose De Matta

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself. - Sir Winston Churchill

I have found a desire within myself that no experience in this world can satisfy; the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. - C. S. Lewis

I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. - J.K. Rowling

I jealously guard my research time and I love fully immersing myself in those dusty old books and papers. It's one of the most enjoyable parts of my job. - Sara Sheridan

I know by now you think I should have straightened myself out - Thank you, drop dead! - Morrissey

The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason. - John Cage

To fill the fathomless caverns of my thirsty soul I must work entirely contrary to impulses of my own humanity, for it is in emptying myself at the very point where I am most empty that I fill myself. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

My business is not to remake myself, But make the absolute best of what God made. - Robert Browning

For too many centuries women have been being muses to artists. I wanted to be the muse, I wanted to be the wife of the artist, but I was really trying to avoid the final issue — that I had to do the job myself. - Anaïs Nin

I love to laugh. Specially at myself. Sometimes I spend hours doing it. - Nuno Roque

We’re going to make a tunnel for that ship. We’re going to make sure that little lady has every chance in the world to survive. If I get any trouble out of any of ya… he paused. I’ll handle it myself, do you understand? Johan… Vital Perception - D.L. Given

When I looked at myself through the prism of awareness, great tears came as I connected with how this wounded child felt. - David W. Earle

The evidence of death is before my eyes constantly. Moving from me outward. My death always a step in advance. The world is a mirror of myself dying. The world not dying anymore than I die. I more alive a hundred years from now. Than at this very moment. - Lydia Lunch

And here I was, left with only myself to deal with. It was entirely up to me. - James Baldwin

What am I doing? Tearing myself. My usual occupation at most times. - Charles Dickens

I can't bring myself to watch yet another video, not because I don't care, but because we're all just a few videos away from becoming completely desensitized. The public execution of Black folks will never be normal. - Andrena Sawyer

It is not fit that I should give myself pain, for I have never intentionally given pain even to another. - Marcus Aurelius

Yes. Oh no! I don't subject myself to a leadership that does not break new territories! It is the job of leadership to succeed in landing its limbs on new grounds. - Israelmore Ayivor

Design is not really a way for me to express myself. Design is a product that we produce for a client. - Peleg Top

It's just me throwing myself at you,romance as usual, us times us,not lust but moxibustion,a substance burning closeto the body as possiblewithout risk of immolation. - Alice Fulton

I tried to tell myself that you’re gone but it just wont sink in. No matter what I do, i’m still missing and thinking about you. - unknowen

The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself - something that's in all of us, I think, a little piece of God just waiting to be discovered. - Tina Turner

I'd rather look ridiculous when everybody else does than plain and sensible all by myself. - L. M. Montgomery

Walking alone, I sing to myself and am content. - Marty Rubin

I don’t want to accidentally end up looking back on my life to find that I’m ashamed of myself, I want to live a life I can be proud of. - Alice Bag

In order to love others I need to be full of it myself - Odille Rault

I cannot live my life striving only for my own security, I can only feel secure when I see myself useful in other people's life. - Nurudeen Ushawu

It would do me well to realize that the path that has led me to where I am was mapped by those who taught me and paved by what they taught me. Therefore, if God is not my teacher and His truth is not my topic I will find myself where I don’t want to be, having trod a path I didn’t want to take. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

Useless to tell myself that a dreamand the memory of yesterday are the same thing - BORGES JORGE LUIS

Just being around her made me feel better. She had an amber shade aura to her that filled any cracks and brokenness I hadn't yet fixed. I could be myself around her, knowing full well she held on as I let go. - Hubert Martin

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking. - Albert Einstein

I've never found anybody that I could work with as quickly as myself, or with less argument.

I don't wear the opinions of others anymore, I learnt to dress myself. - Nikki Rowe

I started creating;Myself From The Inside Out & My God I WishIHadDoneItSooner. - Nikki Rowe

Some people need a super hero to save them, but I am my own super hero. All I need is myself, my strengths and the fiery passions in my heart to overcome the obstacles in my life. - Imania Margria

When I take a break, even just a brief one, the creative energy flows in. Only then do I have anything of value to share with others. Once I recognized this, I stopped feeling guilty about taking time for myself. - Holly Mosier

Now I check myself in the mirror."Why do women do that?" he asks."What?""Look yourself down like there's some problem needs fixing. You're better than fine. - David B. Ramirez

Pain is awesome I like it, to see myself scared is awesome to see how people get killed just makes me happy. - Deyth Banger

I surround myself with things that make me happy. Why? Because ... it makes me happy. - Kelly Epperson

When standing face to face with myself, I far too often refuse to look in the mirror. When standing face to face with God, there is no place where a mirror is not. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

it was when I stopped searching for home within others and lifted the foundations of home within myself I found there were no roots more intimate than those between a mind and body that have decided to be whole. - Rupi Kaur

I found myself when I least expected you- at the same old rocking chair in the room with the same flavor of tea. The only difference was the tea had turned cold, just as life had. And I found myself with an option. I could abandon this tea anytime and make a fresh one. You see? - Jasleen Kaur GumberKaur Gumber

Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, when I give I give myself. - Walt Whitman

I like contradictions. We have never attained the infinite variety and contradictions that exist in nature. Tomorrow I shall contradict myself. That is the one way I have of asserting my liberty, the real liberty one does not find as a member of society. - Man Ray

I am a Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship in my own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to oppose what I believe wrong, or free to choose those who shall govern my country. This heritage of freedom I pledge to uphold for myself and all mankind. - John G. Diefenbaker

I can only speak for myself, I said. But there are none that I have ever loved who I no longer love. - Patricia Briggs

I, myself, love complications and mystery which I didn't notice that I had become one. - Keziah Ruth D. Lingco

When I meet a man I ask myself, 'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?' - Rita Rudner

I tried to contain myself... but I escaped! - Gary Paulsen

The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower. - Sylvia Plath

Sometimes with one I love, I fill myself with rage, for fear I effuse unreturn'd love; But now I think there is no unreturn'd love—the pay is certain, one way or another; (I loved a certain person ardently, and my love was not return'd; Yet out of that, I have written these songs.) - Walt Whitman

They took my booksbecause my message was love.They took my penbecause my words were love.Then they took my voicebecause my song was love.Soon they’ll take myselfso nothing remains.But they don’t know that when I'm gonemy love will stay. - Kamand Kojouri

I do. I choose you, which is to choose him and the others and to say Everything I was ever told of love was so simple as to be untrue. Let me see for myself what you desire beside me. Let me look it in the face and kiss him. - Jameson Fitzpatrick

And I think that in myself (and perhaps evident in what I write) fear of loss and the corresponding instinct to protect myself against loss are potent forces. - Richard Ford

I am staring into eyes so dark and compelling that I feel as if I could easily lose myself within them. He moves me slightly away from his body but doesn't let go. Energy, just like in the forest a few nights ago, ebbs and flows betwen us. - Jennifer Sucevic

To an unmoored, middle-aged man like myself, it was heart-breaking. That’s all right. I like to have my heart broken. - Kurt Vonnegut

I need to move. I don’t fit in here. I almost tried a juice cleanse once, but quickly remembered that I could starve, and was starving, myself for free. - Kris Kidd

Just as my body had changed at puberty, now I was developing a sense of guilt, a sense not only of how I appeared to others, but of how I appeared to myself, especially in violating self-imposed prohibitions. - Hanif Kureishi

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. - Jalaluddin Rumi

I must turn myself around so that I am viewing life as my prospects see it. Only then can I start addressing their issues, help to prevent their pain, and advise on solutions to their problems. - Chris Murray

Hope, in anything but myself, is just way too dangerous right now… - Jennifer Elisabeth

All these years I've been feeling like I was growing into myself. Finally, I feel grown. - Oprah Winfrey

I will not find myself, nor will I obtain any precarious morsel of life in giving all of life to myself. If I am ever to find these things, I must first be willing to give these things away at the very moment that I come into possession of them. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

My knight, I said jokingly before I had a chance to stop myself. Too late I realized. ~Charlie~ - J.L.Clayton

I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially to the extent to which it has been applied, will be one of the greatest jokes in the history books of the future. Posterity will marvel that so very flimsy and dubious an hypothesis could be accepted with the incredible credulity it has. - Malcolm Muggeridge

I let myself flop - so gently, so slowly - into my one real chair and tried to make myself understand that I was on the doorstep of the universe. - Frederik Pohl

When they throw the water on the witch, she says, Who would have thought a good little girl like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness. That line inspired my life. I sometimes say it to myself before I go to sleep, like a prayer. - John Waters

I count myself lucky, having long ago won a lottery paid to me in seven sunrises a week for life. - Robert Brault

I just never let anything bother me, man. I know myself really well. Nobody's opinion of me can shake my opinion of myself. - Ruben Studdard

Woven words are little conviction when I present myself as a man of fiction. - Hubert Martin

When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to worry about. My contest is only with myself, to do it right, with power, and force, and delight, and gamble. - Charles Bukowski

Every time I complete a major project I reward myself with two full days of just reading and coffee! I do justify that it is my work! - Delia J. Colvin

I also did some jail time a few years ago. Spent a whole summer in jail reading books. I pumped a ton of new knowledge and new thinking into myself. - Tommy Lee

I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments. - Jim Morrison

Sometimes I need a place to ask myself impossible questions. - Davis Bunn

For others, in spite of myself, from myself. - Emmanuel Levinas

I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am. - Samuel Johnson

Dou comigo a pensar se figuras de estilo não serão, afinal, as silhuetas dos corpos humanos que tão ardentemente desejamos ou abominamos.I find myself wondering if figures of speech are not, after all, the silhouettes of human bodies which we so ardently desire or abhor. - Victor Eustáquio

I avow myself the partisan of truth alone. - William Harvey

Out of humility I label not myself or others. All I can say is this; God is my Father. Jesus is my Savior. And the Holy Spirit dwells in me. - Tom Krause

As I sit down each day and think through how much my parents had to sacrifice in order to send me to school, it leaves me to ask myself at the end of each day what have I done for them today. - Abdulazeez Henry Musa

Rehearsals and practice times by myself are like these little islands of 'Okay' in a vast sea of 'Holy Crap! - Jordan Sonnenblick

I’m creating a self help show called Self Talk. I’ll insult myself for an hour then open phone lines to a fitness coach & my mother-in-law. - Ryan Lilly

When I'm depressed I'll lie to myself to make me feel better. But really, it's ok, because depression only sometimes gets the best of me. - Dave Guerrero

At least she's not guilty of integrity, and that's more than I can say of any Bell in four generations except my grandfather and myself. - James Thurber

I know my worth. Never again will I condemn myself to the prison of a bad relationship. - Steve Maraboli

Today, I went to sleep under a plum tree. There, I dreamed I was a butterfly, flying so pleasently. Then, I fell asleep, and the dream ended. Now- I have to ask myself - am I Zhuang Zi who dreamed of a butterfly? Or am I that butterfly, dreaming I am Zhuang Zi? - Zhuangzi

I see myself..in those pages as she goes back and forth, enjoying simply enjoying the beauties of the moments then chastising herself for having ‘no edge’ being simple and worse, harmless. - Michael Cunningham

I Love Myself No Matter who likes or Not I am Unique :) - Deepthi Shetty

Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell. - John Milton

I have walked myself into my best thoughts and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. - Søren Kierkegaard

Instead of saying; "WWJD (What would Jesus do)?" I will be asking myself "WIDTM(Will I Do This Do Myself"Because Jesus said, "Love your neighbors as if you love yourself."So I will quote I will treat others as if I am treating myself - Temitope Owosela

I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe. - Franz Kafka

Every week I read about myself in a magazine, about something that I haven't done or some place that I've never been or don't even know. It's just gossip, rumors, egos, and politics. - Hilary Duff

I tried always to do better: saw always a little further. I tried to stretch myself. - Audrey Hepburn

I wanted to get lost to find myself. - Debasish Mridha

But I do not know what to tell myself. Stuart needs "space" and "time," as if this were physics and not a human relationship. - Kathryn Stockett

I want to get away from people, I want to kill myself. - Tanmaya Guru

Hair is gray and the firers are burning. So many dreams on the shelf. You say I wanted you to be proud of me. I always wanted that myself. - Tori Amos

No wonder I stopped keeping a journal. It was like keeping a record of my own stupidity. Why would I want to do that? Why would I want to remind myself what an asshole I was? - Benjamin Alire Sáenz

If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself. - Mickey Mantle

Now this might disturb you, but I find I'm OK by myself;and I don't need you or your benevolence to make sense. - Morrissey

I think that my job is to observe people and the world, and not to judge them. I always hope to position myself away from so-called conclusions. I would like to leave everything wide open to all the possibilities in the world. - Haruki Murakami

Men ask for a rainbow in the cloud; but I would ask more from Thee. I would be, in my cloud, myself a rainbow -- a minister to others' joy. My patience will be perfect when it can work in the vineyard - George Matheson

What am I to do on this earth? The choice rests with me: suffer or enjoy. Whither will suffering lead me? To nothingness; but I shall have suffered. Whither will enjoyment lead me? To nothingness; but I shall have enjoyed myself. - Victor Hugo

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change. - Carl R. Rogers

After getting myself relatively educated in the area of national transformation, I have come to discover that it makes better sense to look at what I could do to fix the problems of the society rather than blaming others for what is wrong in the country. - Sunday Adelaja

Here the frailest leaves of me and yet my strongest lasting, Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself do not expose them, And yet they expose me more than all my other poems - Walt Whitman

One thing I've learned in life is that I can speak for myself, that I can fight my own battles. I don't like anyone telling me how I'm supposed to feel or think or what I'm supposed to say. - Hope Solo

I suddenly saw that all the time it was not I who had been seeking God, but God who had been seeking me. I had made myself the centre of my own existence and had my back turned to God. - Bede Griffiths

Brushing my little teeth every morning of my childhood, I stood on my tippy toes, leaned over the sink and said to myself that when I am a big girl I will see from this high.Today I did the same thing, but the view from my toes was the same from flat feet.I'm a big girl now. - Audrey Regan

If I could split myself into five people, I would still be behind on my writing schedule. I see now why James Patterson cloned himself so many times. - Peter James West

CALVIN:When I grow up I want to be an inventor. First I will invent a time machine. Then I'll come back to yesterday and take myself to tomorrow and skip this dumb assignment. - Bill Watterson

We are our choices.. That's why I am so afraid to choose.. Because more than anything else, I am afraid of facing myself.. - Laarni Venus Marie Nillama

Because at nightwhen others are sleeping, I drown myself in poetry. - Kamand Kojouri

Because they saved me from myself, they rescued me from my loneliness. They were the first to accept me for who I am. They're my friends.-Naruto Uzumaki - Masashi Kishimoto

If our society remember the iconic people by they hard work and self effort impacting our community, so I can consider myself as one of them because you will remember how hard I've been working to make it till there. - Amen Muffler

If I am not for myself, who will be for me? But if I am only for myself, who am I? If not now, when? - Pirkei Avot

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself. - Edith Sitwell

I'm not sure what happened to me over the last few days. I lost myself, I think. I sank down into a hole for a while. They're tricky things, holes. You don't know you're in one until you get out. - Kevin Brooks

It preoccupies me until it's time to leave. It seems such the right expression of grief. I am sad, so in whatever small way I can, I will tear myself apart. They've taken what's on the inside and made it visible. If I thought it wouldn't be inappropriate I'd do it myself. - Jael McHenry

One of my greatest lessons of growth was to stop dwelling in the past and forgive myself and others from all the pain and hurt that was caused. When I finally let go and released, I was free with glee. - Jason Micheal Ratliff

I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things. - Dorothy Parker

My shadow is tired walking with me; but I have yet to be bored walking with myself, all by myself... - Munia Khan

I ordered a coffee and a little something to eat and savored the warmth and dryness. Somewhere in the background Nat King Cole sang a perky tune. I watched the rain beat down on the road outside and told myself that one day this would be twenty years ago. - Bill Bryson

The universe is soo huge, it would be a pity if we were alone - Maybe Carl Sagan otherwise me myself

To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself. - Albert Einstein

If the praise of man elates me and his blame depresses me; if I cannot rest under misunderstanding without defending myself if I love to be loved more than to love...then I know nothing of Calvary love. - Amy Carmichael

You know that I immerse myself in music, so to speak— that I think about it all day long— that I like experimenting— studying— reflecting. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Merlin, do you mind?' It was the King who asked me, a man as old and wise as myself; a man who could see past his own crowding problems, and guess what it might men to me, to walk in dead air where once the world had been a god-filled garden. - Mary Stewart

I make a rule for myself. That if I am going to buy a book, and have it on my bookshelf, I am going to someday read it. - Mekiah Johnson

He was the most complicated beautiful mess I'd ever seen and if this is what you feel, when you've met someone that is about to change your entire world; than I dare not hide myself away from it. - Nikki Rowe

I can already feel myself falling hard, something I've been known to do. All because she smiled at me. - Jennifer Niven

I found myself in a sea in which the waves of joy and sorrow were clashing against each other. - Naguib Mahfouz

I love you, but I’m more in love with myself and that’s the problem. - Dominic Riccitello

I love you; my heart belongs to you; I am you; I lost myself in you; you are my expression, my beauty, my life and living. You are my mirror, my sun, and my moon. - Debasish Mridha

I pride myself on the fact that my work has no socially redeeming value.

There's nothing sexier than imaging myself as an Oxford comma getting unambiguously banged. Throw in a semicolon in between two closely related independent clauses, and a volcanic love of punctuation eruption is guaranteed. - Ella Dominguez

Whenever I love you, I find myself more loving. - Debasish Mridha

There is no pleasure that I haven't made myself sick on. - Philip Seymour Hoffman

When I stopped loving, I lost purpose; When I stopped loving myself, I lost myself. - Pavitraa Parthasarathy

When you write by hand, you don't have the excessive freedom of a computer. When I write down something, I have to be serious about it. I have to ask myself, "Is this necessary at this point in the book? - Pat Conroy

I lay still and watch myself slowly drift apart... - Devjeet Chawdhary

If I had created myself, I would be taller, blond, and more well endowed, financially. I would have cast out spiders and bad-hair days. Therefore, and hence, I believe strongly in a Creator who not only gave me the gift, but the free will to create my own journey through life. - Audrey Conn

... I said to myself that growing up really means slowing down.

I know myself know; and I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience. - William Shakespeare

I, myself, spent 9 years in an insane asylum and never had any suicidal tendencies, but I know that every conversation I had with a psychiatrist during the morning visit made me long to hang myself because I was aware that I could not slit his throat. - Antonin Artaud

When I became too much myself, I had to change my life. - Abby Norman

The world was a bad joke dreamed up by the Almighty on an off-day. I've always felt myself that he probably had a hangover that morning. - Jack Higgins

I know my heart will never be the sameBut I'm telling myself I'll be okay - Sara Evans

My greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live. - Kanye West

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy. - Franz Kafka

It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.

I know that this process of ‘me changing my life’ doesn’t just end once I set fire to this list of things I hate about myself. Tonight isn’t as much of a new beginning as it is a violent end and I know the real work hasn’t even started yet. - Jennifer Elisabeth

I can only begin the process of saving myself when I surrender to the reality that I can’t. And what greater place to surrender that reality than to an infant who surrendered Himself to me so that I might surrender myself to Him. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

I tried to hang myself with a bungee cord. I kept almost dying. - Steven Wright

If I let a gust of wind or a sprinkling of rain turn me aside from the easy tasks, what preparation would such sloth be for the future I propose myself? - Charlotte Brontë

I know that we shall meet problems along the way, but I'd far rather see for myself what's going on in the world outside, than rely on newspapers, television, politicians and religious leaders to tell me what I should be thinking.

I have done without electricity, and tend the fireplace and stove myself. Evenings, I light the old lamps. There is no running water, and I pump the water from the well. I chop the wood and cook the food. These simple acts make man simple; and how difficult it is to be simple! - C.G. Jung

I don’t know if this happens in all relationships, but I just got so sick of his all too familiar stories. I had heard these stories so many times that I could have recited them myself. - Brenda Perlin

younot wanting mewasthe beginning of mewanting myselfthank you - Nayyirah Waheed

I could only defend myself so much. It was my word against his. There was no evidence, nor was there any proof. My word meant very little. - Brenda Perlin

I've seen many politicians paralyzed in the legs as myself, but I've seen more of them who were paralyzed in the head - George Wallace

Check your ego at the door and check your gut instead. Every right decision I have ever made has come from my gut. Every wrong decision I've made was the result of me not listening to the greater voice of myself - Oprah Winfrey

The past is a shadow, so I hid in the darkness. Little did I know I was made myself the unsuspecting prey of unseen predator. For only in light can you can you see what is dark. - Dina Luate-Wani

I don't want to make somebody else. I want to make myself. - Toni Morrison

Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself. - Jane Wagner

Knowing you, I understood myself. - Kamand Kojouri

They tell us the greatest love story is how water fell in love with fire. Or how satan fell in love with God. But the greatest love story to me is how I didn’t notice myself falling, when I fell in love with you - Kamand Kojouri

Dignity is the only one thing I have chosen over rules and benefits of slavery. I am not perfect because I chose to be myself; a human and this is the simplest form of dignity. - Rola Mahmoud

How can I blame others, when I cannot stop myself committing crimes? - M.F. Moonzajer

The app saved three minutes of my time. But in the process, it cut a neighborhood business out of the economic equation. And, in a way, I had cut off myself from the inconvenient, maddening, but all-too-necessary messiness of human interaction. - Nick Bilton

I don't like to sit around and judge others as I don't like to be judged myself. - Britney Spears

Every morning I look in the mirror and remind myself: "No one owes you sh*t!" In this way, I am never disappointed. Never placing blame. - Brandi L. Bates

I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself. - Oprah Winfrey

I didn't appear to need anyone: I could do it all myself. I could do everything. I was both halves: did that mean I was whole? - Rachel Cusk

By getting to know you I get to know myself too. - Kate McGahan

What?" I asked."Nothing," he said."Why are you looking at me like that?"Augustus half smiled. "Because you're beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence. - John Green

I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. - Steve Jobs

What I used to say to people, when I was much more engagé myself, is that you can't be apolitical. It will come and get you. It's not that you shouldn't be neutral. It's that you won't be able to stay neutral. - Christopher Hitchens

If I hear the phrase "selfie" one more time, I'll have to enroll myself in anger management classes. - Rebecca McNutt

Tonight, It's not about You, Tonight It's about Me,It's about How Your absence, troubles me,It's about How i hide all of this Hurt .Tonight it's not about Love, Tonight it's about separations,it's about How i write, to remember You,it's about How i remember You, through all of Myself . - Syed Murtaza Haroon

If I facepalm myself too much, maybe the pimples will go away. - Sam Mamaril

I've been poked and prodded in places I'd always prided myself on keeping untouched for that one special doctor who gives me a ring and a promise someday. - Libba Bray

I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me. - Charles Lamb

I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it. - Mae West

Albert Camus did not know he was summing up modern photojournalism when he wrote:"Will I kill myself or have a cup of coffee - Sacha Hartgers

I can't bring myself to say, 'Well, I guess I'll be toddling along.' It isn't that I can't toddle. It's just that I can't guess I'll toddle. - Robert Benchley

I was alone with myself. And disgusting as I was it was better than being with somebody else, anybody else, all of them out there doing their pitiful little tricks and handsprings. - Charles Bukowski

When happiness is liked by me and others equally, what is so special about me that I should strive after happiness only for myself? - Śāntideva

I keep myself busy with things to do but every time I pause I think of you. - T.J. Klune

To me, re-reading my favorite books is like spending time with my best friends.I’d never be satisfied to limit myself to just one experience each with my favorite people. - C.S. Lewis

The more I lived with Jan, the more I loved her, the more I made her miserable. It was a vicious cycle (page 209)……The more I loved her the more I hated her. And the more she loved me, the more I harmed myself (page 269). - Marvin Gaye

Let me get lost in your heart so that I may find myself in the mirror of your mind. - Debasish Mridha

If I thought that what I'm doing when I write is expressing myself, I'd junk the typewriter. Writing is a much more complicated activity that that. - Susan Sontag

A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness. - Seneca

If I reveal myself without worrying about how others will respond, then some will care, though others may not. But who can love me, if no one knows me? I must risk it, or live alone. - Sheldon B. Kopp

I want to be with God all the time. But I don't want to be a monk, or totally give up worldly pleasures. I guess what i want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights, but also devote myself to God. - Elizabeth Gilbert

The value in my room is neither my Television nor my bank note. The value in my room is myself! Why? Because even if I lose everything I have, but still get me, I am coming back with full passion and desperation to climb the unclimbed hills again and again! - Israelmore Ayivor

I first heard of Parmenides' best-known assertion, "Whatever is, is." I laughed and blurted out, "And he's famous?" With this verbal ejaculation I revealed myself as the quintessential sophomore. - R.C. Sproul

I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion. - Henry David Thoreau

I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. It’s because of them I’m doing it myself. - Albert Einstein

Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving. - Albert Einstein

I believe in myself like a five-year-old believes in himself. They say look at me, look at me! Then they do a flip in the backyard. It won't even be that amazing, but everyone will be clapping for them. - Kanye West

Her love... so unconditional, so unapologetic; reminds me that I am worth so much more than the standard I have set for myself. - Steve Maraboli

Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month that I can be myself. - Roseanne Barr

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean lay all undiscovered before me.

Cried myself to sleep-woke up crying… - JJM

I pride myself in being a technology innovator, so our specialty at Veeam is our laser-focused commitment to R&D, but you cannot build solid solutions without knowing what the goals are for your customers. - Ratmir Timashev, CEO Veeam

I can be a better me than anyone can; I am me. Good or bad. I am myself. I'm no carbon copy of no one else. - Diana Ross

Any day of the week I would choose to be "out" with others and in touch with myself... then to be "in" with others and out of touch with myself. - Portia Nelson

Yes. And I’m rich now when I think about it. I own myself, and I’m worth eight hundred dollars. I wish I had the money. Then I wouldn’t ever want anything else - Mark Twain

When I look myself through your eyes , I only see love , everything else melts away in eternity - Sweta Sinha

i immersemyselfin youlikei immerse myselfinto a beautiful story. - Sanober Khan

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any. - Lao Tzu

You're special to me in every way. Thank you for being who you are and for letting me be myself. Z_m - ZAKIYA AND MAJID

When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying one night and realized I was talking to myself.

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. - Kurt Vonnegut

When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a colouring book, with the inside not yet completed. - Sarah Dessen

Reality is myself, reality is only the perception of this instant and it can't be related to another person. - Gao Xingjian

My only regrets are the moments when i doubted myself and took the safe route. Life is too short to waste time being unhappy. - Dan Howell

Through strength I found loveIn time I found myself in happiness with you - Alexis Jordan

I've never let anyone talk me into not believing in myself. - Muhammad Ali

When I sit down to write I actually ask myself, 'Who do you want to be today?' - Richelle E. Goodrich

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty...But I am too busy thinking about myself. - Edith Sitwell

I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair. - Alfred Tennyson

If I dream by myself, it's merely a dream. But if we all dream together, that's the start of a new future. - Lee Soo Man

I must fling myself down and writhe; I must strive with every piece of force I possess; I bruise and batter myself against the floor, the walls; I strain and sob and exhaust myself, and begin again, and exhaust myself again; but do I feel pain? Never. How can I feel pain? There is no place for it. - Harry Houdini

My parents won’t let me have a motorcycle, but they give me all the guns I want. I asked them for a motorcycle last Christmas and they told me I’d only kill myself. They got me this twelve-gauge instead. - Scott Thompson

I myself am an absolute abyss. - Antonin Artaud

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. - Isaac Newton

Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. - J. K. Rowling

Success to me is being happy, truly fulfilled, being proud of myself, and doing different things all the time. - Leighton Meester

I don't like the memories because the tears come easily, and once again I break my promise to myself for this day. It's a constant battle. a war between remembering and forgetting. - E.E. Cummings

There is no use being alive if one must work. The event from which each of us is entitled to expect the revelation of his own life’s meaning - that event which I may not yet have found, but on whose path I seek myself - is not earned by work. - André Breton

I've never had inner turmoil about all this. You find a lot of people these days who cannot stand to be alone. You could lock me up in solitary for weeks on end, and I'd keep myself amused. - Keith Richards

My religion consists of laughing at myself. My motto is this: As long as there is a me, there is a reason to laugh out loud! - C. JoyBell C.

Find my wrongdoings and blame it on me,Willingly I will accept the fact.I will not change as per your perspective,but will surely not hurt you,While I am being myself. - Bikash Chaurasiya

I listen to the silenceand yearn to be more me,swimming in the sea of myself,learning eternally -finding out where the rocks areand smoothing them into sand. - Jay Woodman

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat. - Rebecca West

People can't stand to be alone with themselves, so they bother me when I'm trying to be alone with myself. - James Jean-Pierre

If I can get on to my sofa and occupy myself for four hours, at intervals through the day, scribbling my notes, and able to read the books that belong to me, in that they clarify the density, and shape the formless mass within, life seems inconceivably rich... - Alice James

I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth, and I cannot. I blench and withdraw on this side and on that. I seem to know what he meant who said, No man can see God face to face and live. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

My world is about FEELings. Sometimes, these feelings run so deep i fear i will drown.Creatively, it's a dream to be so sensitive. In real life, it's exhausting, as i tread water to keep myself from sinking. - Jaeda DeWalt

It occurs to me that I am America.I am talking to myself again. - Allen Ginsberg

I ask myself: Are Defeats necessary ?Well,necessary or not, they happen.When we first begin fighting for our dream, we've no experience and make many mistakes.The Secret of life, though,is to fall seven times and to get up eight times ! - Paulo Coelho

The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs. - Charles de Gaulle

I say to myself: "Who are you to measure infinite power? - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

No other thing or no other person is going to make me happy in life, I just have to do that myself. - Greg Page

I was up all night just to talk to myself about you. - Debasish Mridha

I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes. - Ruth Rendell

I focus all my energy into become a faster, stronger, and better version of myself. - Georgia Clark

Betrayal is advancing myself at the expense of the one who I committed myself to advance. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

I will not dumb myself down to make someone else more comfortable with their ignorance. - Kelli Jae Baeli

Today I introduced myself to my very own Heart,In silent agony, after all these years it bled apart. - Ankita Singhal

To know myself as woman in the image of God to know God as Mother and to know my own mother as a window into God: these three are inseparable.If one is implausible to the heart the other two are as well. - Roberta C. Bondi

I could never free myself from the thought that Nature is that which is slowly killing me. - Charles Simic

Occasionally, I have to think like myself to remember where I put something.

I’m not going to die because I failed as someone else. I’m going to succeed as myself. - Margaret Cho

Within the whispers of love, I found my heart. Within a glimmer from a ray, I found my soul. Within both, I found myself. - Raneem Kayyali

Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it. - Groucho Marx

I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. - Isaac Newton

I find that when I do not think of myself I do not think at all. - Jules Renard

Before proving it to someone else, I had to be able to prove it to myself. - Tyconis D. Allison Ty

Why should I cumber myself with regrets that the receiver is not capacious? It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space, and only a small part on the reflecting planet. Let your greatness educate the crude and cold companion. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them--with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself. ― - Eudora Welty

I am not afraid of anything in the world. But I'm afraid of myself, afraid of what I will be in the future. - Luffina Lourduraj

But still I feel I waste a lot of time leaning on my elbow and thinking to myself, "alright sucker, now what? - Peter S. Beagle

I don't have dreams and inspiration. I just want to enjoy myself. - Jayson Zabate

Oh, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial. - William Shakespeare

I may not know you, but I don’t see any difference between you and me. I see myself in you; we are one. - Debasish Mridha

For many years, I searched for this connection outside of myself but always to no avail. It was only when I turned inward did I find this power. - David W. Earle

Why do I write? Out of fear. Out of fear that the memory of the people I write about might go lost. Out of fear that the memory of myself might get lost. Or even just to be shielded by a story, to slip inside a story and stop being recognizable, controllable, subject to blackmail. - Fabrizio de André

Flaws.We all have them. BUT, they are all about perception. What I consider as a flaw may not be what someone else considers as a flaw. To me, a flaws is an imperfection or a fault in MY eyes. I consider my flaws to be things that I do not like about myself and things that I would like to change. - Horacio Jones

Maybe your right. Maybe I should blame myself… Who the hell needs that? - Nana Mary Roseanne

I force myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste. - Marcel Duchamp

I'm bad when it comes to giving advice and best at expressing myself. - Shawn Lukas

The meal is not over when I'm full. The meal is over when I hate myself. - Louis C. K.

I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it. - Jonathan Safran Foer

Even if others tried to prove me wrong, I know myself that what I said was right. - Jyca Therese Lauron Livelo

I’ve worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down, and I will not let myself down. - Mia Hamm

I've always liked Belgian waffles, but I must say, I didn't think I would one day be having Belgian waffles in Belgium! I just sort of POOF found myself there and there I was with a gigantic Belgian waffle in my hands, standing on a sidewalk in Belgium! - C. JoyBell C.

I teach the world how to treat me by the way I treat myself, and the way I present myself. - Kristine Gasbarre

I give myself, sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it. - Mary Montagu

Once upon a timeI fell in loveLost myselfAnd find another one. - Arzum Uzun