You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.
Steve Prefontaine

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.
Vincent Van Gogh

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
Alexander Pope

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.
Robert Frost

I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.
Aaliyah

If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.
Anais Nin

The world is the mirror of myself dying.
Henry Miller

I'd like to be a queen in people's hearts but I don't see myself being queen of this country.
Princess Diana

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself; you want to try even harder to make it work.
Princess Diana

I just don't want to live like I used to. And at some point, I'm going to put a gag order on myself in terms of talking about the past. I've got to slam the door and deal with the present and the future.
Charlie Sheen

I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.
Leo Tolstoy

The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.
Rabindranath Tagore

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
Frederick Douglass

When I give, I give myself.
Walt Whitman

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
H. L. Mencken

When you're singing you can hear the echo of people in the audience singing every single word with you, and that was that big dream that I had for myself. It's happening.
Taylor Swift

I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.
Jackie Robinson

Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.
Walt Whitman

Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.
Walt Whitman

O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.
Walt Whitman