It excites me when a person puts their whole self in a song or rhyme, or instrument. It fills me.
Jill Scott
MeSongSelfPersonWholeRhyme
Being teased and losing my self value eventually ended up inspiring me to be a better version of myself.
Khoudia Diop
MyselfValueLosingMeSelfBetter
I think that I have self esteem issues, really. If you really analyse it... People who really like me I have no interest in. The unattainable is always that I want to attain.
Karan Johar
PeopleMeThinkSelfYouWant
Social issues have been used to distract Americans from their own self interests since Nixon's southern strategy, and now people are paying the price.
Deborah Kass
PeopleSelfStrategyPriceNowOwn
The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.
James Anthony Froude
GreatnessSelfEssenceNeglect
Like blind hens, we are ignorant of our own self and the depths within us.
Johannes Tauler
BlindSelfIgnorantWithinOwnUs
I think that when you're exploring themes of humanity and what defines a hero and what makes us our best self and what makes us our worst self, you're going to stumble into territories of societal issues and that kind of thing. Sometimes you have accidents where you're not trying, but then the opportunity just presents itself. and you lean into it.
Julie Plec
OpportunityHeroBestThinkSelf
If the landscape changes, then I don't know who I am either. The landscape is a refracted autobiography. As it disappears you lose your sense of self.
Iain Sinclair
I AmSelfLandscapeYouLoseKnow
To return to the books of my childhood is to yield to the strain of nostalgia that is curious about the self I once was.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
ChildhoodCuriousSelfNostalgia
It's the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world.
Keanu Reeves
JourneyPeopleWorldStartSelfYou
One of the great things about wrestling is how it interrogates this silly idea that you have one authentic self.
John Darnielle
GreatSelfSillyYouGreat Things
I developed a sense of self before moving to crazy Hollywood, which was really important.
Jane Levy
CrazyMovingSelfImportantSense
We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.
Harold Bloom
KnowledgePeopleSelfBetterEnough
A guy who's actually self destructive is quite fun to play.
Chris O'Dowd
FunSelfPlayGuyDestructiveQuite
Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.
George Eliot
HappinessSelfTryPrepareWithout
If I could talk to my younger self, I would tell her that you will grow into the woman you've always wanted to be. You will find love. You will be successful. You will be happy.
Andreja Pejic
LoveWomanHappyBe HappySelfGrow
Children have such vibrant minds. They need to play. They need to be creative. They need to imagine. It's so important for their sense of self discovery. And it helps them learn problem-solving.
Jan Brett
ChildrenCreativeSelfLearnPlay
Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love.
Galway Kinnell
LoveMindSelfFallScarsNever
Learning to be your natural self in front of five cameras and a silent studio takes time. Trying to be funny under duress is probably a lot like trying to play golf relaxed under pressure.
Colin Jost
FunnyLearningTimeSelfPressure
My heart goes out to the Lindsay Lohans and Britneys who have really had childhood taken from them and probably missed important developmental steps. They have become sort of 'public domain' and something to be made money on. There's no sense of self there, I'm sure of it.
Genie Francis
HeartMoneyChildhoodSelfImportant
The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.
Maxwell Maltz
ChangePersonalityKeySelfBehavior
Novelists are in the business of constructing consciousness out of words, and that's what we all do, cradle to grave. The self is a story we tell.
James Gleick
BusinessWordsStorySelfOutTell
I used to worry a lot. I still worry a lot, but not about the things that I used to worry about because my younger self, I didn't regret anything that I ever did... I was happy, and I was free, and I was living it up.
Cardi B
HappyFreeRegretSelfWorryLiving
At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.
Brendan Behan
LonelinessDeepSelfPowerfulLost
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