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Self Quotes

I find it endlessly interesting, endlessly funny, the fact that we're rather arbitrarily divided up into these discrete humans and that your physical self, your physical attributes, your moment of history and the place where you were born determine who you are as much as all that indefinable stuff that's inside of you.

Deborah Eisenberg

Funny History Moment Self You Born

I had a corporate job and wore a suit to work every day, and I just kind of felt like I wasn't living my authentic self or doing what I was passionate about.

Work Day Job Self Doing Every Day

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

World Self Nothing More Lies Fables

Everyone has a private self and a public self.

Self Everyone Public Private

We have to give feminism a shot. Out of sheer self preservation, we have to stand aside and let women run the show.

Women Self Stand Run Feminism Out

Girls are socialised in ways that are harmful to their sense of self - to reduce themselves, to cater to the egos of men, to think of their bodies as repositories of shame. As adult women, many struggle to overcome, to unlearn, much of that social conditioning.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Women Struggle Men Think Self Shame

Sometimes I get frustrated with my own self because I'm such a perfectionist.

Self Sometimes My Own Own Get

You always feel like your 18-year-old self in some sense. And that's what walking through New York on a June evening feels like - you feel like it's Friday, and you're 17 years old.

New York Self Evening Friday Walking

One reason to write a poem is to flush from the deep thickets of the self some thought, feeling, comprehension, question, music, you didn't know was in you, or in the world.

Jane Hirshfield

Music World Deep Thought Self You

Whether you're a woman, a transwoman, a person of color, I feel like Instagram is really important for the creation and framing of the self.

Woman Color Self Feel You Person

Drugs have nothing to do with the creation of music. In fact, they are dumb and self indulgent. Kind of like sucking your thumb!

Music Self Dumb Creation Kind Your

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

Vision World Self Know Glory Will

Some people have an identity. I have an alibi. I have a shadow self.

Shadow Identity People Self Some

Being in a band is not about reality - it's a bit of a fantasy. I can't go on stage as my ordinary self and just play - I've got to become my 'superhuman self.'

Self Reality Play Go Fantasy Become

It's hard to live in a blind and aimless - or dishonest, rather - narrative when somebody in your family is going farther toward - or at least think they are and say they are - their true self.

Family Live Think Blind Self True

I will say that as I get older and calmer and quieter in my own self, the one quality in a woman that I find more and more attractive is kindness. A sense of adventure and humor is important too, but I truly find kindness and consideration for others to be the most attractive thing in anyone.

Kindness Humor Quality Woman Self

Latinos are very passionate, and they perform a lot, and look at me, I'm talking with my hands, and this is just my normal self, so it kind of allows me to be who I am and not dumb it down.

Genesis Rodriguez

I Am Me Self Talking Hands Look

The self was a very strange concept to me until I came to America, and my child was born with that entitlement, and that just thrilled me.

Child Me Self America Born Strange

We have a habit of turning to scientists when we want factual answers and artists when we want entertainment, but where are the facts about the nature of the self? Neurologists peering at PET scans and fMRIs know they aren't seeing the soul in there.

Nature Pet Soul Habit Facts Self

For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.

Change Growth Character Think Self

The way I try to live is 'Be here now.' Be your best self now.

Christy Turlington

Live Best Self Now Way Try

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

Teacher Blind Self Person Needs

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

Self Dare Strange Prove May However

When you're able to be honest with yourself about who you are and finally can present your authentic true self to the world, you feel so much better about yourself, and it makes it easier for everyone else to feel better about you.

Yourself World Self Present Better

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