I was a supporting character in other people’s lives, which seemed right and familiar to me. I was also an outsider: English in the U.S., American in England, dogged yet comforted by that familiar feeling of alien-ness, which occupied that space where my sense of self should have been. – Allegra Huston
If I could write a letter to my teenage self, I’d probably say something like: ‘You ain’t gonna believe what will become of you.’ – Antony Sher
Getting to have an opportunity to tell a story that is about mental illness and how it affects one’s self and one’s community was really something that really meant a lot to me. – Bryce Dallas Howard
Let us die as soon as possible, and by whatever process God shall appoint. And when we are dead to the world, and nature, and self, we shall begin to live to God. – Adoniram Judson
The tension between ‘yes’ and ‘no’, between ‘I can’ and ‘I cannot’, makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one’s self. – Anatole Broyard
I do think moms should be given a break, all across the board. And I think that the most important thing is that you’re healthy. After I had my little girl, I wanted to be healthy for her and have a healthy body image so that she hopefully grows up to see that her self worth isn’t defined by how thin she is. – Busy Philipps
The Christ-symbol is of the greatest importance for psychology in so far as it is perhaps the most highly developed and differentiated symbol of the self, apart from the figure of the Buddha. – Carl Jung
Having a self, even a simple self, allows you to look into the world and put a mark over what is more important and less important. It’s a way of classifying the world in terms of your own needs. – Antonio Damasio
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. – Aristotle
It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over. – Arthur Erickson
We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race. – Edna St. Vincent Millay
Of course, every artist has ‘minor works’ that they do, but I don’t think I have any ‘minor disciplines.’ Each discipline I approach as a major undertaking that I put my whole self into. – Patti Smith
We need a self because the complexity of the chemical processes that make up our individual humanities exceeds the processing power of our brains. – Mohsin Hamid
Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own self. Our consciousness being broadened and enriched, we shall judge ourselves more correctly. – Ella Maillart
There are selves too big for one person to contain. You cannot call them selfish. There is nothing -ish about such selves. They are the self, as it were, itself. – P. J. O’Rourke
I found one remaining box of comics which I had saved. When I opened it up and that smell came pouring out, that old paper smell, I was struck by a rush of memories, a sense of my childhood self that seemed to be contained in there. – Michael Chabon
Sadly, black people disassociate ourselves from the things which make us who we are, identifying them as lesser, or inferior. It’s a form of self hate. So, with reckless abandon, we strive to be like the majority. – Nate Parker
The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain. – Daniel Bell
By its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross. It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross. – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Martial art is a form of expression, an expression from your inner self to your hands and legs. – Donnie Yen
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. – Gilbert K. Chesterton
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
I’ve never… when I was having songs on the airwaves, and that sort of thing, I never felt a sense of pressure anywhere except from myself, to do things the way I wanted to do them; to feel authentic; to feel like I was presenting my true self to the world. – Mary Chapin Carpenter
I think my younger self would be more amazed to know I was doing an interview for ‘The Spectator.’ – Gary Kemp
I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: ‘not sexy,’ ‘not funny,’ ‘too intense,’ desperate.’ All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn’t a trace of my true self left. – Naomi Watts
The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one’s self to others. – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
