Well, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while. Sometimes they’re of my own creation, as well – and they’re just as annoying. It’s not only other people’s ear worms that bug me, it’s my own, as well.
Brian EnoThe Public is merely a multiplied ‚me.‘
Mark TwainI’ve never been pregnant, so I just feel God didn’t mean for me to have kids so that everybody else’s children could be mine.
Dolly PartonYou’re looking at a middle-class guy. I am who I am.
Joe BidenI’m tired of fighting. I’ve always known that I can’t be an action star all my life.
Jackie ChanI care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!
Theodore RooseveltMan is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
Albert CamusI put my flaws on front street. So the world accepted my flaws, so I don’t have any flaws.
Kevin GatesI saw a picture of myself when I came out of the hospital. I didn’t recognize myself.
Amy WinehouseAt 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.
Maya AngelouAlways first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.
Franz KafkaI’m selfish.
Kendrick LamarMan’s unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.
Thomas CarlyleI’m 31 now. I think I’m beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.
Adam SandlerFew are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
Albert EinsteinTo be honest with you, when I got into this I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.
Adam SandlerI am not a particularly thick-skinned person.
J. K. RowlingI think I’ve developed, as many people do, this sense of, ‚Don’t say the wrong thing, or else people will point at you and laugh.‘
Taylor SwiftScrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.
Richard M. NixonNever say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
Brian TracyI change my mind a lot. I usually don’t agree with what I say very much. I’m an awful liar.
David BowieAs an athlete, you’d better laugh at yourself when you slip in the mud.
Dwayne JohnsonI find with most of my readers are kind of like me, sort of people who were a little bit naive in life and then learned the hard way that this is what’s going on, the political games and most of my readers write to me telling me that the book helped them open their eyes to what other people are doing to them.
Robert GreeneThoughts are fine when you don’t confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.
Eckhart TolleAs a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.
Frank OceanTo be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.
Samuel JohnsonThink not that humility is weakness; it shall supply the marrow of strength to thy bones. Stoop and conquer; bow thyself and become invincible.
Charles SpurgeonEternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.
Woody AllenWe are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
Tennessee WilliamsTest yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.
Franz KafkaWhen you are young you tend to do so many things that are not needed. When you get experience, you know what exactly what works for you and you tend to do things that you want.
Sunil ChhetriIt’s only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I’m skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I’m big, when I was big, I never thought about it.
Karl LagerfeldYou’re going to die. You’re going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we’re just going to be gone. The world’s going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself.
Bob DylanThe fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?
Angelina JolieKnowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
Lao TzuPeople can try to reinvent themselves. I don’t think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you’ve done up to now.
EminemMy life has been one great big joke, a dance that’s walked a song that’s spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.
Maya AngelouWhat’s the greater risk? Letting go of what people think – or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?
Brene BrownIt would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be.
David BowieI’m super self-critical, which I think is good, because then I get exactly what I want. I’m critical of other people, too – I try not to be, though.
Billie EilishHe that overvalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.
Samuel JohnsonWe feel and know that we are eternal.
Baruch SpinozaIf I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.
Gilbert K. ChestertonA fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.
Aldous HuxleyTo meditate means to go home to yourself. Then you know how to take care of the things that are happening inside you, and you know how to take care of the things that happen around you.
Thich Nhat HanhAs long as you blame someone or something else – something outside you that’s bigger than you are – as the source of your problems, the problems won’t get solved.
Robert KiyosakiI haven’t written my own epitaph, and I’m not sure I should. Whatever it is, I hope it will be simple, and that it will point people not to me, but to the One I served.
Billy GrahamI am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.
Jean-Paul SartreThe more people I reach, the more people there are that have opinions about me. Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.
Joyce MeyerPeople who say they don’t care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don’t care what people think.
George CarlinMany men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
Henry David ThoreauI don’t think I’m tangible to myself.
Bob DylanI asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.
Kurt VonnegutI have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo GalileiJesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.
Blaise PascalIn this big ball of people, I’m just one grain of sand on this beach.
AuroraHe had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
Isaac AsimovBe the chief but never the lord.
Lao TzuI am trying to find myself. Sometimes that’s not easy.
Marilyn MonroeBeware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.
Charles Spurgeon