I have to understand what my strengths and limitations are, and work from a true place. I try to do this as best I can while still protecting my writer self, which more than ever needs privacy.
Sandra Cisneros

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.
Jean Piaget

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.
Pearl Bailey

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.
Jean Piaget

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

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.
May Sarton

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.
Thomas Szasz

To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.
Antoine Rivarol

It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish.
Thomas Szasz

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

Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self.
Jeanette Winterson

To fight against the infidels is Jihad; but to fight against your evil self is greater Jihad.
Abu Bakr

Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.
Vanessa Hudgens

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.
Hu Shih

It's not like my old self - I'm not in character anymore, I'm me. I'm not hiding behind that anymore.
Damon Albarn

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.
Elaine Dundy

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

The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen.
Ellen Key

It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act.
Charles Eames

It's the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world.
Keanu Reeves