Quotes about Self
Your outside is just what you live in, sleep in, and has little connection with who you are and even less with what you do.
- William Faulkner
ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crises with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from truth.
- William Faulkner
He thought that it was loneliness which he was trying to escape and not himself.
- William Faulkner
In a strange room you must empty yourself for sleep. And before you are emptied, what are you. And when you are emptied for sleep you are not. And when you are filled with sleep you never were.
- William Faulkner
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. (1778 - 1830)
- William Hazlitt
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
- William James
We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire universe.
- Henri Matisse
We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.
- Henry David Thoreau
One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn't do.
- Henry Ford
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're right.
- Henry Ford
It is part and parcel of every man's life to develop beauty in himself. All perfect things have in them an element of beauty.
- Henry Ward Beecher
There are materials enough in every man's mind to make a hell there.
- Henry Ward Beecher