- Banjo
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- Nov 07, 2020
Myself Quotes
Quotes on knowing yourself.
These quotes turn inward, questioning long-held traditions and how one sees oneself - one recalls identifying strongly as a mathematician rather than a technologist, while another admits, with some humor, to relying on charm rather than looks. Related reading includes I Am Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- I Write
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write a lot about myself.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
You check to see the facts are correct where business is concerned but if I read everything that was written about me, I'd end up feeling totally insecure about myself.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not vanity to feel you have a right to be beautiful. Women are taught to feel we're not good enough, that we must live up to someone else's standards. But my aim is to cherish myself as I am.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel beautiful when I'm at peace with myself. When I'm serene, when I'm a good person, when I've been considerate of others.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
Focusing on the way I look makes me uncomfortable. I try to focus on the way I feel - I know what makes me feel better about myself. Reading my child a story makes me feel great, doing my hair nicely doesn't.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
I took lessons for about everything you could imagine - gymnastics to karate to flute and piano. My mom always definitely kept me in some kind of class or program, but for guitar, I kinda gave up on then kinda just taught myself. Same thing with piano. I've never been good with following lessons.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry is the most intimate of all writing. I want to speak first from me to myself and then from me to you.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd like to be more patient! I just want everything now. I've tried to meditate, but it's really hard for me to stay still. I'd like to try to force myself to do it, because everybody says how wonderful meditation is for you, but I can't shut my mind up. So patience and learning is the key.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had everything I'd hoped for, but I wasn't being myself. So I decided to be honest about who I was. It was strange: The people who loved me for being funny suddenly didn't like me for being... me.
- Trying
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way I process things, they way I express myself, is in comics, just as poets process things that they are trying to understand.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm so deeply interested in what it feels like to be other people that I get to operate under the illusion when I'm writing fiction that I'm not really revealing that much about myself. But, of course, I am, and I know that I am. And yet there's this sort of membrane that I get to work behind as I write my fiction, and I love it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am an alcoholic. It took me a long time to admit that to myself. It took me a long time to admit it to my family, but I am.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of myself, felt that I had such scant offerings to give to the world, that the one thing that justified my existence at all was my agony.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020