Self Quotes

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

~ Ernest Hemingway

We cultivate love when we allow our most vulnerable and powerful selves to be deeply seen and known, and when we honor the spiritual connection that grows from that offering with trust, respect, kindness and affection.Love is not something we give or get; it is something that we nurture and grow, a connection that can only be cultivated between two people when it exists within each one of them – we can only love others as much as we love ourselves.Shame, blame, disrespect, betrayal, and the withholding of affection damage the roots from which love grows. Love can only survive these injuries if they are acknowledged, healed and rare.

~ Brené Brown

I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.

~ Jess C. Scott

Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens

~ Tony Deliso

A fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement

~ Jess C. Scott

V-Day…if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for “your loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love.

~ Jess C. Scott

You cannot be with someone just because you don’t want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about.

~ Melissa De La Cruz

Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.

~ David Levithan

My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism.

~ Jess C. Scott

Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.

~ Brennan Manning

It often occurs that pride and selfishness are muddled with strength and independence. They are neither equal nor similar; in fact, they are polar opposites. A coward may be so cowardly that he masks his weakness with some false personification of power. He is afraid to love and to be loved because love tends to strip bare all emotional barricades. Without love, strength and independence are prone to losing every bit of their worth; they become nothing more than a fearful, intimidated, empty tent lost somewhere in the desert of self.

~ Criss Jami

Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay.

~ Jess C. Scott

Happiness is part of who we are. Joy is the feeling

~ Tony Deliso

I suppose it’s not a social norm, and not a manly thing to do — to feel, discuss feelings. So that’s what I’m giving the finger to. Social norms and stuff…what good are social norms, really? I think all they do is project a limited and harmful image of people. It thus impedes a broader social acceptance of what someone, or a group of people, might actually be like.

~ Jess C. Scott

Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.

~ Brian Tracy

I've decided that I'm not going to try to squeeze myself into a friendship that hurts me anymore. I'm going to let her go and just be friends with people who make me feel good about myself.

~ Zoe Sugg

If someone does not want me it is not the end of the world. But if I do not want me, the world is nothing but endings.

~ Nayyirah Waheed

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

~ May Sarton

He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.

~ Katharine Hepburn

We'd start slow, the way we always did, because the run, and the game, could go on for awhile. Maybe even forever.That was the thing. You just never knew. Forever was so many different things. It was always changing, it was what everything was really all about. It was twenty minutes, or a hundred years, or just this instant, or any instant I wished would last and last. But there was only one truth about forever that really mattered, and that was this: it was happening. Right then, as I ran with Wes into that bright sun, and every moment afterwards. Look, there. Now. Now. Now.

~ Sarah Dessen

Don't think about making life better for other people who don't even deserve you, rather, focus on making your life the best, for yourself and those who love you.

~ C. Joybell C.

I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.

~ Mary Anne Radmacher

To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder?

~ Ayn Rand

You are -- your life, and nothing else.

~ Jean-Paul Sartre

I don't judge people. It blurs out the center of my attention,my focus, myself.

~ Toba Beta

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

~ John Berger

If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.

~ Marvin Gaye

If you own this story you get to write the ending.

~ Brené Brown

Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity.

~ Deepak Chopra

I've come to know that what we want in life is the greatest indication of who we really are.

~ Richard Paul Evans

Please, touch me, I pray.

~ Jess C. Scott

Write it on your heart you are the most beautiful soul of the Universe. Realize it, honor it and celebrate the life.

~ Amit Ray

I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.

~ Roger Zelazny

Depression weighs you down like a rock in a river. You don't stand a chance. You can fight and pray and hope you have the strength to swim, but sometimes, you have to let yourself sink. Because you'll never know true happiness until someone or something pulls you back out of that river--and you'll never believe it until you realize it was you, yourself who saved you.

~ Alysha Speer

Be patient. Your skin took a while to deteriorate. Give it some time to reflect a calmer inner state. As one of my friends states on his Facebook profile: The true Losers in Life, are not those who Try and Fail, but those who Fail to Try.

~ Jess C. Scott

In still moments by the sea life seems large-drawn and simple. It is there we can see into ourselves.

~ Rolf Edberg

It is when you lose sight of yourself, that you lose your way. To keep your truth in sight you must keep yourself in sight and the world to you should be a mirror to reflect to you your image; the world should be a mirror that you reflect upon.

~ C. Joybell C.

When you become the image of your own imagination, it's the most powerful thing you could ever do.

~ Rupaul

We carry about us the burden of what thousands of people have said and the memories of all our misfortunes. To abandon all that is to be alone, and the mind that is alone is not only innocent but young -- not in time or age, but young, innocent, alive at whatever age -- and only such a mind can see that which is truth and that which is not measurable by words.

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti