Yourself
Definition: Used to refer to the person being addressed as the object of a verb or preposition when they are also the subject of the clause.
Number of Quotes: 14
Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
Douglas Adams
The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
Douglas Adams
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Scott Adams
We don't always have an accurate view of our own potential. I think most people who are frightened of public speaking and can't imagine they might feel
different as a result of training. Don't assume you know how much potential you have. Sometimes the only way to know what you can do is to test yourself.
Scott Adams
As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when
you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward.
Augusten Burroughs
Paradigms are like glasses. When you have incomplete paradigms about yourself or life in general,
it's like wearing glasses with the wrong prescription. That lens affects how you see everything else.
Sean Covey
Oh, if only it were possible to find understanding,
Joseph exclaimed.
If only there were a dogma to believe in.
Everything is contradictory, everything tangential; there are no certainties anywhere. Everything can be interpreted one way
and then again interpreted in the opposite sense. The whole of world history can be explained as development and progress and
can also be seen as nothing but decadence and meaninglessness. Isn't there any truth? Is there no real and valid doctrine?
The master had never heard him speak so fervently. He walked on in silence for a little, then said:
There is truth, my
boy. But the doctrine you desire, absolute, perfect dogma that alone provides wisdom, does not exist. Nor should you long
for a perfect doctrine, my friend. Rather, you should long for the perfection of yourself. The deity is within you, not in ideas
and books. Truth is lived, not taught. Be prepared for conflicts, Joseph Knecht - I can see that they already have begun.
The Glass Bead Game
Hermann Hesse
I used to think that love was giving up everything of yourself and giving it to the other person. Now,
I've realized that love is when you have somebody that doesn't make you give up half of yourself.
Kehlani
My love, you are driving the entire world mad. The nightingales are committing suicide one by one out of jealousy of
your voice. The roses took one glance at your beauty and folded themselves from shame. The trees now only whisper your name
and the sky hasn't stopped crying since you looked up. Have pity on us, my love. We have already broken all the mirrors and
glass out of fear that you will forget us and fall in love with yourself once you see what we all cannot stop seeing.
Kamand Kojouri
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
Anna Quindlen
No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk
until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than
mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection.
The Wise Man's Fear
Patrick Rothfuss
They say there's no second act in American lives. There's something there worth exploring. Giving up an idea of yourself, examining
your failure, and seeing if that failure was the system's or yours. What does it mean to not turn out to be the person you want to be?
Scott Rudin
You cry and you scream and you stomp your feet and you shout. You say, You know what? I'm giving up, I don't
care.
And then you go to bed and you wake up and it's a brand new day, and you pick yourself back up again.
Nicole Scherzinger
Ever think of introducing yourself?
Y.T. says.
Nah,
he says, people always forget names. You can just think of me as that one guy, y'know?
Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson
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