Quotes About Self

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Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 percent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourself and there isn't one.

Wei Wu Wei

We're so caught up in trying to do everything, experience all the essential things, not miss out on anything important...We can't read all the good books, watch all the good films, go to all the best cities in the world, try all the best restaurants, meet all the great people...Life is better when we don't try to do everything. Learn to enjoy the slice of life you experience, and life turns out to be wonderful.

Leo Babauta

I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter & those who matter don't mind.

Dr. Seuss

A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.

Madeleine L'Engle

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.

Katharine Hepburn

He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.

Gabriel García Márquez

Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

Toni Morrison

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

Kurt Cobain

Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one's own self.

Franz Kafka