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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Quotes by Joseph Addison

Yes, forget your weakness, whatever that weakness may be. It is egotism, it is selfishness after. all, for it is a dwelling on self. Forget your weakness; and remember your strength.

Quotes by Joseph Barber Lightfoot

The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.

Quotes by John Updike

When we contemplate the heroes of Christianity, and compare our feeble efforts with their astonishing performance and self devotion, we should fall into despair, were there not a few softening features, by which they are brought back to the ranks of humanity.

Quotes by John Strachan

The library is seen as a force for self improvement and the pursuit of knowledge. I fear that in many cases this is no longer true, if it ever was.

Quotes by John Redwood

Writers don't always know what they mean - that's why they write. Their work stands in for them. On the page, the reader meets the authoritative, perfected self; in life, the writer is lumbered with the uncertain, imperfect one.

Quotes by John Lahr

There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self.

Quotes by John Gay

I came to realise that Darwinian evolution had no explanation of me as an experiencing self.

Quotes by John Eccles

Keep a journal, and learn how to see how you as an individuals sees information so you can learn your own sign language. Meditate and practice psychic self defense and surrounding yourself with prayer.

Quotes by John Edward

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

Quotes by John Dewey

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.

Quotes by John Darnielle

In a world where a lot of people's sense of self is dominated by how many people are following their Twitter feed, what does fame really do, and why is it important?

Quotes by John Carroll Lynch

Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight.

Quotes by John Bradshaw

Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.

Quotes by John Berger

This marched was planned to be non violent and non confrontational, and gladly it stayed that way. What really impressed me was the self discipline of the Black Block.

Quotes by John Blair

Like blind hens, we are ignorant of our own self and the depths within us.

Quotes by Johannes Tauler

What this nation most wants, most yearns for, most needs is someone where people know, all Americans know, that even when they disagree well with him, he will always be accountable to them above one's party, above self and any special interest.

Quotes by Joe Sestak

This business switching styles can't be done honestly by one man. As soon as he can play his instrument well, he can express himself, and all his life he has only one self.

Quotes by Jimmy Rushing

I know my 17-year-old self would read my bourgeois fiction, full of metaphors and rhythmic prose, with a sinking heart.

Quotes by Jim Crace

But that's something that I like about scoring film: it makes me reach out of the parameters of my self, it requires me to do things musically that I wouldn't normally do left to my own devices.

Quotes by Jim Coleman

I think there is something a little too self conscious about enjoying being an outsider.

Quotes by Jhonen Vasquez

Texas is where I found my musical self.

Quotes by Jerry Jeff Walker

While we teach our daughters about self defense, we should teach the sons about being respectful as well. A society cannot function properly if only one gender is rising. It has to be in tandem. It cannot be unequal. There has to be balance for upliftment.

Quotes by Jennifer Winget

The celebrated film critic Pauline Kael once wrote that movies function as escape pods, portals to parallel universes that can be radically different from emotional norms and societal conditioning of our own. What she meant was they parceled out freedom, allowing viewers to lose their selves in an effort to find greater connection to the self.

Quotes by Jenna Wortham

I didn't want to sit around and wait for someone to discover me, so I created my own self through the Internet.

Quotes by Jeffree Star

When you fit meditation into your day, you bring much more of yourself to all the other hours of your day - you bring your whole self rather than your stressed-out self.

Quotes by Jeff Kober

Art was something I could do better. It gave me a sense of self.

Quotes by Jeff Koons

I never had any question that my parents loved me. I had a real sense of self confidence.

Quotes by Jeannette Walls

Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully.

Quotes by Jeanette Winterson

A self does not amount to much, but no self is an island; each exists in a fabric of relations that is now more complex and mobile than ever before.

Quotes by Jean-Francois Lyotard

The self thus becomes aware of itself, at least in its practical action, and discovers itself as a cause among other causes and as an object subject to the same laws as other objects.

Quotes by Jean Piaget

In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact.

Quotes by Jean Piaget

It means so much to me to see Caitlyn Jenner coming out, just by being her authentic self, staying true to who she is, and just living her life.

Quotes by Jazz Jennings

Writing provides no guarantees. And writers who stay with writing do it for reasons that are larger than self.

Quotes by Jayne Anne Phillips

A lot of times when you're acting, you're no longer talking and listening; you're going at it for your own self.

Quotes by Jason Scott Lee

Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing.

Quotes by Janet Suzman

I have reared, or helped to rear, five children and the scariest bit, bar none, is the learning-to-drive part. It has filled me with anxiety not only about the children, but also about my former self and my friends.

Quotes by Jane Smiley

I developed a sense of self before moving to crazy Hollywood, which was really important.

Quotes by Jane Levy

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.

Quotes by Jane Hirshfield

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.

Quotes by Jan Brett

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.'

Quotes by Jamie Hince

No one ever judges their own self.

Quotes by James Wolk

The right of self defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals, and whether the attack be made by Spain herself or by those who abuse her power, its obligation is not the less strong.

Quotes by James Monroe

The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology.

Quotes by James Mark Baldwin

In conclusion we may say, in view of the confirmation that our study has given of the parallelism between individual and racial thought of the Self, that in the history of psychology we discern the great profile which the race has drawn on the pages of time.

Quotes by James Mark Baldwin

I do not consider my self as having mastered the flute, but I get a real kick out of trying.

Quotes by James Galway

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.

Quotes by James Gleick

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.

Quotes by James Gleick

I don't cast somebody that I think is like my younger self.

Quotes by James Franco

The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

Quotes by James Anthony Froude

It's just so fragile. The growing sense of 'Oh, God, what am I doing? Am I any good? Will I ever work again?' All those questions of self doubt, they do creep in.

Quotes by Jacqueline McKenzie

I didn't always have a lot of self confidence growing up.

Quotes by Iskra Lawrence

I take risks, but I don't lose respect for my real self. Because what's going to happen afterwards? How are you going to get back? Is there going to be a train, or will it be after midnight and you can't go home again?

Quotes by Isabelle Adjani

To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.

Quotes by Irving Wallace

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

Quotes by Irvine Welsh

A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog.

Quotes by Irving Babbitt

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

Quotes by Iris Murdoch

I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness.

Quotes by Ira Glass

I am very much aware of my own double self. The well-known one is very under control; everything is planned and very secure. The unknown one can be very unpleasant. I think this side is responsible for all the creative work - he is in touch with the child. He is not rational; he is impulsive and extremely emotional.

Quotes by Ingmar Bergman

Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.

Quotes by Imelda Marcos

Once I actually get in the studio and I start working, I'm fine, but it's just getting there and these hours of torment with myself and self doubt, thinking 'I'm useless' and 'Who am I, conning myself into thinking I can do it again.'

Quotes by Imogen Heap

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.

Quotes by Igor Stravinsky

Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self.

Quotes by Ian Hacking

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.

Quotes by Iain Sinclair

Religion is the call to confront reality; to master the self.

Quotes by Huston Smith

I think I'm much less self confident today. I actually went through a quite painful period because of that thinking that I was completely hopeless. But I think that's something that we all go through at various times of our lives and it was quite a sustained thing with me.

Quotes by Hugo Weaving

I will burn your city, your land, your self.

Quotes by Hulagu Khan

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Quotes by Hugo Black

On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger.

Quotes by Hu Shih

Social media is an advertisement for the superficial extroverted self.

Quotes by Hozier

If you manifest your true self through nature and your normal surroundings, I find that the most eerie. Like when you see birds suddenly start flying in a different direction or when you see moths forming weird shapes, I think that's the weirdest way to let yourself be known.

Quotes by Holland Roden

I reveal all of myself. I bring all of myself to my roles. You only see me. You don't see anything else but me. That is who's there. They're manifestations of my own self.

Quotes by Holly Hunter

All great art allows us this: a glimpse across the limits of our self.

Quotes by Hisham Matar

If you skew the endocrine system, you lose the pathways to self. When endocrine patterns change, it alters the way you think and feel. One shift in the pattern tends to trip another.

Quotes by Hilary Mantel

By a combination of formal training and self study, the latter continuing systematically well into the 1940s, I was able to gain a broad base of knowledge in economics and political science, together with reasonable skills in advanced mathematics, symbolic logic, and mathematical statistics.

Quotes by Herbert A. Simon

It is the parent's job to see how their child learns and to make sure that the children's self confidence is buoyed at all times, or they will plummet like a stone.

Quotes by Henry Winkler

He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice.

Quotes by Henry Taylor

The concert is a polite form of self induced torture.

Quotes by Henry Miller

My bravery however was the effect of assurance for could I have believed the current report, I should have fled as fast as any man, no man can possibly have a greater reluctance to an intimacy with Sir William Howe than my Self.

Quotes by Henry Laurens

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.

Quotes by Henry Adams

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

Quotes by Henri Frederic Amiel

Our inclination is to show our Lord only what we feel comfortable with. But the more we dare to reveal our whole trembling self to him, the more we will be able to sense that his love, which is perfect love, casts out all our fears.

Quotes by Henri Nouwen

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

Helen Keller

My real self, the self I have always been from a child, is a loner and nerd, slightly overweight, with a very heavy fringe. That is who I was as a kid. I don't think I will ever be anything other than that.

Quotes by Hayley Atwell

There is no self.

Quotes by Harry Dean Stanton

I definitely have a shareholders' perspective. I'm not doing that altruistically. I'm doing that because it's in my own self interest to do it. I think that's good for my other shareholders because they go along with me: If I do well for myself, then they do well for themselves.

Quotes by Harold Simmons

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.

Quotes by Harold Bloom

International sport is a lonely journey. You compete with one's self and try to grow as a cricketer.

Quotes by Harbhajan Singh

As I got older, I became so self conscious about my birthmark that I was very hesitant about going to a pool party, because I didn't want my makeup to rub off.

Quotes by Hannah Storm

I consider fitness, diet, and beauty to be essential to a balanced self.

Quotes by Hannah Bronfman

It is very hard to separate one's self from a character. Sometimes the people closest to me have to be very understanding.

Quotes by Halle Berry

If there's one message I want people to take away is never compromise being your authentic self. Even if that means making others uncomfortable.

Quotes by Halima Aden

What is the nature of that place where our original self is one with its longing to explore its own deepest possibilities, and where discovering the treasures waiting there is the same as fulfilling our purpose for being?

Quotes by Guy Finley

Owing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state arises of the individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the Self.

Quotes by Guru Nanak

Fear comes from personal self-acceptance and not the self.

Quotes by GRiZ

One thing I wish I could tell my younger self: take photos of everyday life, not special occasions; later, that's what will be interesting to you.

Quotes by Gretchen Rubin

I really work on paying attention to the clues my self is giving myself. For instance, I think of myself in the third person. That allows me to manage myself better.

Quotes by Gretchen Rubin

To me, redneck is a sense of self and a way of life.

Quotes by Gretchen Wilson

If you take my own life, the longer you stay in a country, you almost lose your former self and become this third-party person who is caught in between two worlds.

Quotes by Greg Poehler

Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.

Quotes by Gordon B. Hinckley

One must never give up and always believe in one's self.

Quotes by Gonzalo Higuain

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