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myself Quotes

21 of the best book quotes about myself
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“I change myself, I change the world.”
Gloria E. Anzaldúa
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“The natural appeal of this authoritative imagery is to me, at first, very small. At first sight it chills, rather than awakes, my desire. And that is just what I ought to expect. If Christianity could tell me no more of the far-off land than my own temperament led me to surmise already, then Christianity would be no higher than myself.”
The Weight of Glory
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“The entire narrative of this country argues against the truth of who you are.”
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“When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.”
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“Although divorce was harder than a death, still I felt oddly returned to myself after many years in a close family.”
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“The world will break your heart ten ways to Sunday, that’s guaranteed. And I can’t begin to explain that- or the craziness inside myself and everybody else, but guess what? Sunday is my fav day again”
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“There will always be a part of me that is dirty and sloppy, but I like that, just like all the other parts of myself.”
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“If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?”
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“In the World through which I travel, I am endlessly creating myself.”
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“I knew that if I allowed fear to overtake me, my journey was doomed.”
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“Every now and then I could see myself—truly see myself—and a sentence would come to me, thundering like a god into my head, and as I saw myself then in front of that tarnished mirror what came was the woman with the hole in her heart.”
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“Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.”
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“Because the truth is that my God is coming back. When he arrives I’ll be waiting for him with a shotgun. And I’m keeping the last shell for myself.”
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“And in that moment, everything I knew to be true about myself up until then was gone. I was acting like another woman, yet I was more myself than ever before.”
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“I planned to waste away and die, but there is a spirit of life, even in one such as myself, that stands in the way of such decisions. ”
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“And shall I pray Thee change Thy will, my Father, Until it be according unto mine? But, no, Lord, no, that never shall be, rather I pray Thee blend my human will with Thine.”
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″‘If I ever meet myself,’ said Zaphod, ‘I’ll hit myself so hard I won’t know what’s hit me.’”
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“I wanted only to try to live in accord with the prompting which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?”
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“A brief study of Heroes in Verse and Prose, made up and told in several attic rooms by my Great-grandfather and myself.”
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“Everything around me is evaporating. My whole life, my memories, my imagination and its contents, my personality - it’s all evaporating. I continuously feel that I was someone else, that I felt something else, that I thought something else. What I’m attending here is a show with another set. And the show I’m attending is myself.”
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“I am throwing the party for the sake of itself, for your self, and for my self.”

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