加载中…英语名言 quotes about self
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Self is the only prison that can ever bind the
soul.
We are all primary numbers divisible only by
ourselves.
We sometimes feel that we have been really understood, but it was
always long ago, by someone now dead.
The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing
ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love
us.
Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying
proportions.
To wash one's hair, make one's toilet, and put on scented robes;
even if not a soul sees one, these preparations still produce an
inner pleasure.
Man is never alone.
We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it,
than any other person can be.
Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to
anybody.
Think positively about yourself....
ask God who
made you to keep on remaking you.
Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically
divided against ourselves.
I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end
by leaving me nothing.
Looking back, you realize that a very special person passed briefly
through your life, and that person was you.
The only man we have any respect for, is he who uses all the
endowment he has, and uses it until he bleeds.
And remember, no matter where you go, there you
are.
There are at least two kinds of cowards.
So you are lean and mean and resourceful and you continue to walk
on the edge of the precipice because over the years you have become
fascinated by how close you can walk without losing your
balance.
The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still
hinge.
Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest
extreme.
My life has been one great big joke,
A dance that's walked,
A song that's spoke,
I laugh so hard I almost choke,
When I think about myself.
~Maya Angelou
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart!
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not
possible to find it elsewhere.
I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my
heart.
In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be the
gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.
The words "I am" are potent words; be careful what you hitch them
to.
People wish to be settled:
You have the Answer.
Your soul is all that you possess.
The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self, can occur very
quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at
all.
We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is
civil war.
At some point in my life, I swallowed a Sun.
My heart filled with love, flowing over with joy, my own little
drum that I like to march by!
The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual - namely to You.
You are your own judge.
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book shown to him by heart, and his friends can only read the title.
One cannot spend forever sitting and solving the mysteries of one's history.
Sometimes at night I light a lamp so as not to see.
There comes a morning in life when you wake up a new person; that is to say, you wake up the same person but you realize it's your own fault.
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
The naïve follow their hearts.
At this very moment, you may be saying to yourself that you have any number of admirable qualities.
A wise man never loses anything if he have himself.
The finest thing in the world is knowing how to belong to oneself.
Your heart knows your song, but you have to be willing to listen to the words.
All men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives, trying to create their idea of a masterpiece.
We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.
A bud can be beautiful, a work of art even.
Present yourself always
As who you would be,
And that is the person
The world will see.
~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Who has not sat, afraid, before his own heart's curtain?
What we do flows from who we are.
We do not deal much in facts when we are contemplating ourselves.
Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about.
The bright shining
only reflects back to myself,
my own light blinding me.
I can't see the world and they can't see me.
~Anna Chrisrest, "Orion's Under the Clouds"
The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.
Do what you must,
And your friends will adjust.
~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir.
My heart beat, beats me senselessly,
Why's everything gotta be so intense with me...
~Katy Perry, Glen Ballard, and Matt Thiessen, "Long Shot"
There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person.
Renew thyself completely each day; do it again, and again, and forever again.
Almost always it is the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror.
I loathe the expression "What makes him tick."
My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.
No one can drive us crazy unless we give them the keys.
When I look for my existence I do not look for it in myself.
The power inside you is energy amplified.
Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself.
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)
~Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1892
It's like, at the end, there's this surprise quiz:
My flag is raised high today.
Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man - the biography of the man himself cannot be written.
Misfortunes one can endure - they come from outside, they are accidents.
One's only real life is the life one never leads.
A criminal becomes a popular figure because he unburdens in no small degree the consciences of his fellow man, for now they know once more where evil is to be found.
When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something.
Many a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend's emancipator.
The man that shows off, to that one who wants to convince of his value is to himself.
Some things become so completely our own that we forget them.
It is not impossibilities which fill us with the deepest despair, but possibilities which we have failed to realize.
Up to a point a man's life is shaped by environment, heredity, and movements and changes in the world about him.
There is luxury in self-reproach.... When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
Take the time to come home to yourself every day.
If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.
That's the thing about needs.
Alexandros of Antioch took a block of marble and chiseled away from it everything that was not his masterpiece, the Venus de Milo.
a) that you're actually a statue of Margaret Thatcher.
b) that you're still just a block of marble.
c) that there are pigeon droppings on your shoes.
d) that you, too, are a hidden masterpiece.
~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
There is as much difference between us and ourselves as between us and others.
Reputation is in itself only a farthing candle, of a wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.
The only person you should ever compete with is yourself.
If we cannot be happy and powerful and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.
Unjust.
Only you can set you free.
I say me, knowing all the while it's not me.
Everything that I bear within me bound, is to be found somewhere else free.
You grow up the day you have your first real laugh, at yourself.
Daily I learn - sometimes painfully, other times with glee - that mine is a path never meant to be paved.
I am my own heaven and hell!
Most often, walking alone with my shadow is how I find my answer, the result of gathering together all agreeable parties.
Falling, falling, falling, falling down.
We must be our own before we can be another's.
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