Quotes on “self”

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

You cannot be with someone just because you don’t want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about.

I've decided that I'm not going to try to squeeze myself into a friendship that hurts me anymore. I'm going to let her go and just be friends with people who make me feel good about myself.

This above all: to thine own self be true.

Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens

Happiness is part of who we are. Joy is the feeling

I don't judge people. It blurs out the center of my attention,my focus, myself.

When you become the image of your own imagination, it's the most powerful thing you could ever do.

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

If someone does not want me it is not the end of the world. But if I do not want me, the world is nothing but endings.

I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.

If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.

The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books, and to a lesser degree schools.

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.

Don't look to the approval of others for your mental stability

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

You are -- your life, and nothing else.

One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error.