The Soul debases her self, when she sets her affections on any thing but her creator.
Mary Astell
My real self, the self I have always been from a child, is a loner and nerd, slightly overweight, with a very heavy fringe. That is who I was as a... →
Hayley Atwell
Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
W. H. Auden
What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!
Jane Austen
I've got a transcendental way of thinking about things. I've got a galactic self.
B.o.B
A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the... →
Irving Babbitt
It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
Francis Bacon
There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and... →
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.
Pearl Bailey
Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops.
George Pierce Baker