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Be so true to thyself as thou be not false to others. - Francis Bacon Finding oneself was a misnomer; a self is not found but made. - Jacques Barzun A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the not-self that there is no self left to die. - Bernard Berenson, Sketch for a Self-portrait He who knows himself best esteems himself least. - Henry G. Bohn The authentic self is the soul made visible. - Sarah Ban Breathnach And though all cry down self, none means His own self in a literal sense. - Samuel Butler (1) For better or worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life. - Dale Carnegie Explore the dark recesses of the mind, In the soul's honest volume read mankind, And own, in wise and simple, great and small, The same grand leading principle in all; * * * * * For parent and for child, for wife and friend, Our first great mover, and our last great end Is one; and by whatever name we call The ruling tyrant, Self, is all in all. - Charles Churchill Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire. - Confucius Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts. - Albert Einstein The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self. - Albert Einstein We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents. - Ralph Waldo Emerson First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. - Epictetus Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves. - Gene Fowler Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else. - Judy Garland I am I plus my surroundings, and if I do not preserve the latter I do not preserve myself. [Sp., Yo soy yo y mi circumstancia, y si no la salvo a ella no me salvo yo.] - Jose Ortega y Gasset, Meditaciones del Quijote If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe One is led astray alike by sympathy and coldness, by praise and by blame. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe People seldom improve when they have no model but themselves to copy after. - Oliver Goldsmith A creature who has spent his life creating one particular representation of his selfdom will die rather than become the antithesis of that representation. - Frank Herbert Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves. - Hermann Hesse The short-lived self, teetering on the edge of extinction, is the only thing that can ever really matter. - Eric Hoffer A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company. - Charles Evans Hughes In the castle of my skin. - George Lamming, title of a novel Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me. - Toni Morrison Displaying page 1 of 2 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2
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