Quotes on “self”

What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me.

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.

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

My past is everything I failed to be.

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could.

Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity.

Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.

Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back.