Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme. ~Daniel Defoe
The finest thing in the world is knowing how to belong to oneself. ~Michel de Montaigne
Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions. ~D.H. Lawrence
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. ~Robert Brault
We sometimes feel that we have been really understood, but it was always long ago, by someone now dead. ~Mignon McLaughlin
In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be the gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
A bud can be beautiful, a work of art even. But I’m finding it simply can’t compare to the openness of the blossom. Looking for my sun. ~Jeb Dickerson
Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past. ~H.F. Hedge
We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war. ~Charles Caleb Colton
There are at least two kinds of cowards. One kind always lives with himself, afraid to face the world. The other kind lives with the world, afraid to face himself. ~Roscoe Snowden
Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul. ~Henry Van Dyke
The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge. ~Eckhart
A man is ever apt to contemplate himself out of all proportion to his surroundings. ~Christina G. Rossetti
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. ~Sei Shonagon
My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am my own heaven and hell! ~J.C.F. von Schiller
Some things become so completely our own that we forget them. ~Antonio Porchia
We do not deal much in facts when we are contemplating ourselves. ~Mark Twain
People wish to be settled: only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Think positively about yourself…. ask God who made you to keep on remaking you. ~Norman Vincent Peale
A wise man never loses anything if he have himself. ~Michel de Montaigne
When the fight begins within himself, a man’s worth something. ~Robert Browning
You are your own judge. The verdict is up to you. ~Astrid Alauda
Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man – the biography of the man himself cannot be written. ~Mark Twain
That’s the thing about needs. Sometimes when you get them met, you don’t need them anymore. ~Michael Patrick King
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. ~Agnes Repplier
We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves. ~Jean Guitton
We must be our own before we can be another’s. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is as much difference between us and ourselves as between us and others. ~Michel de Montaigne
There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. ~Hindustani Proverb
