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A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes. -- Clare Boothe Luce
I always stayed in tune with my own ambitions and attitudes and I'm still my intractable old self, for better or worse. -- LeRoy Neiman
I have moments where I miss my old self. But I think anyone can get caught up in what we used to have. But at the same time, we can choose to focus on the beauty of now. -- Steve Gleason
Our competition in life is solely with our old self. -- Boyd K. Packer
I can feel my old self come out more and more in trainings. -- Charlie Davies
I'd like to be my old self again but I'm still trying to find it -- Taylor Swift
Most of us still caged within careers chosen for us by our not entirely worldly 18-22 year old selves. -- Alain de Botton
My 13-year-old self would have beaten up my 17-year-old self because she would be like, 'You're a sellout!' -- Miley Cyrus
The pain of sacrificing our old selves is nothing compared to the joy of Christ living in us in our transformed lives. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
... I felt like a new man; but I was disappointed with the photographic documentation because I still saw always the old self. -- Arnulf Rainer
I'm channelling my 14-year-old self. She's thinking about putting on her big hoop earrings and baggy pants and going to the mall downtown. -- Nelly Furtado
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Say Bismillah, In the name of God, as the shaykh does with a knife when he offers an animal. Bismillah your old self to find your real name. - Jalaluddin al -- Rumi
Love is fundamentally a death of an old self that was isolated and the emergence of a new self now entangled with another self, the self that you fall in love with. -- Cornel West
We achieve true wholeness only by embracing our fragility and sometimes, our brokenness. Wholeness is a natural radiance of Love, and Love demands that we allow the destruction of our old self for the sake of the new. -- Jalaja Bonheim
You can't talk about truth without talking about learning how to die because it's precisely by learning how to die, examining yourself and transforming your old self into a better self, that you actually live more intensely and critically and abundantly. -- Cornel West
That's why love is so inseparable from any talk about truth and death, because we know that love is fundamentally a death of an old self that was isolated and the emergence of a new self now entangled with another self, the self that you fall in love with. -- Joseph Conrad
Let me begin now, this very night, to emulate Christ. Cast off forever will be the old self and with it defeat, despair, doubt, and disbelief. To a newness of life I come--a life of faith, hope courage, and joy. No task looms too large; no responsibility too heavy; no duty is a burden. All things become possible. -- Thomas S. Monson
Tests showed cancer of the larynx and the doctor advised an operation immediately. I was informed that my larynx had to be removed completely. I heard about Dr Breuss and went to see him....he prescribed the juice treatment....By the time I had completed this juice treatment I felt fit and once again had a good appetite. Despite my 72 years I felt my old self again. -- Jurgen Neukirch
It's not like my old self - I'm not in character anymore, I'm me. I'm not hiding behind that anymore. -- Damon Albarn
I recognise my old self in a lot of the letters I get from single women who are unrealistic about what they want. -- Mariella Frostrup
You always feel like your 18-year-old self in some sense. And that's what walking through New York on a June evening feels like - you feel like it's Friday, and you're 17 years old. -- John Darnielle
The most difficult part of playing Christ was that I had to keep up the image around the clock. As soon as the picture finished, I returned home to Sweden and tried to find my old self. It took six months to get back to normal. -- Max von Sydow
You are never old to begin self-seeking. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
I'm not a 21-year-old angsty self-destructive rapscallion anymore. -- Karen O
Not just self-restraint, that old killjoy, but communal restraint. -- Wendell Berry
Babies and the old are permitted self-absorption. In between, it provokes resentment. -- Mason Cooley
You hope that your teenage self would like and forgive your 50-year-old self. -- Hugh Laurie
The corne hides it self in the snow, as an old man in furrs. -- George Herbert
How can one build a better self unless on the ruins of the old? -- John Fowles
I wish my 15-year-old self had known about my allure to the opposite sex! -- Benedict Cumberbatch
Negative self-talk and negative affirmation can keep you anchored in old thought patterns and identities. -- Bryant McGill
We do need a return to individual integrity, self-reliance, and old-fashioned gumption. We really do. -- Robert M. Pirsig
Self-awareness moves us beyond the old, well-worn pathways in the brain that support fixed, unconscious habits. -- Deepak Chopra
My heart needs only one thing. It needs to be guided Along the age-old path Of life-blossoming self-awareness. -- Sri Chinmoy
Tracy: Stop eating people's old french fries, little pigeon. Have some self-respect. Don't you know you can fly? -- Tina Fey
In old days men studied for the sake of self-improvement; nowadays men study in order to impress other people. -- Confucius
Subjectivity is my middle name, a trick memory is my pack mule, and self-contradiction is my trusty old jackknife. -- Luc Sante
Self-realization is a process of permanent auto-creation, an elaboration of the new man at the expense of the old. -- Nikolai Berdyaev
Be so busy competing with your old self until you start to see no reason to ever compete with others. -- Edmond Mbiaka
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Slobodan Milosevic was just as smart as a five-year-old. Five-year-olds have an uncanny way of getting into your psyche, your self-esteem. -- Wesley Clark
The whole dear notion of one's own Self-marvelous old free-willed, free- enterprising, autonomous, independent, isolated island of a Self- is a myth. -- Lewis Thomas
[Donald Trump] even quoted a tweet from a self-identified 16-year-old as a way to justify crazy unsupported claims about the popular vote. -- Chuck Todd
I love creepy old dudes. I love that they have so much self-confidence, despite having no evidence whatsoever to back it up. -- Kesha
I was a very self-righteous 15-25 year old. Anyway, I wake up every morning and thank God I'm not a kid anymore. -- Annie Baker
Don't they always go from bad to worse? There's no turning back--your old self rejects you, and shuts you out. ~Lilly Bart -- Edith Wharton
You are as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fears; as young as your hope, as old as your despair. -- Samuel Ullman
You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt, as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear. -- Paul H. Dunn
We've got to get back to old-fashioned politics that's in touch with the people we seek to represent and to avoid self-inflicted wounds. -- David Blunkett
I would define morality as enlightened self-interest...That old Platonic ideal that there are certain pure moral forms just isn't where we are. -- Andrew Young
Usually for a movie, if you want a 13-year-old, you get a 16-year-old who looks 13, because 13-year-olds dont have that level of self-awareness. -- Robbie Coltraine
We love it because it is self dependent, self derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I was 4 years old, my brother and sister died of hunger, so I achieved my success through confidence, self-motivation and my hard work. -- Chen Guangbiao
Clutter is not just physical stuff. It's old ideas, toxic relationships and bad habits. Clutter is anything that does not support your better self. -- Eleanor Brown
When we consciously and deliberately develop new and better habits, our self image tends to outgrow the old habits and grow into the new pattern. -- Maxwell Maltz
I came out of the old Second City in Chicago. Chicago actors are more hard-nosed. They're tough on themselves and their fellow actors. They're self-demanding. -- Bill Murray
Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn't just skills like computer technology. It's the old-fashioned basics of self-reliance, self-motivation, self-reinforcement, self-discipline, self-command. -- Steven Pressfield
I've written since I was 10 years old, so I guess I'm self-taught. I've had some luck along the way, I must admit, and I've worked hard. -- Linda Lael Miller
The book has many different characteristics: some are extremely old-fashioned storytelling traits, but there are also a fair number of postmodern traits, and the self-consciousness is one. -- Jeffrey Eugenides
Release old concepts and energies that keep you in self-punishment patterns. Release old stories and create from a place of love and self-validation. You are worth it! -- Gautama Buddha
The ultimate self is free from sin, free from old age, free from death and grief, free from hunger and thirst, which desires nothing and imagines nothing. -- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
If you are renewed by grace, and were to meet your old self, I am sure you would be very anxious to get out of his company. -- Charles Spurgeon
It was only the matter of a new voice. Nobody listened to an old voice anymore. Old voices became a part of one's self, like a fingernail. -- Charles Bukowski
I don't see,' I said, 'how people stand being old. Your insides all dry up. When you're young you're so self-reliant. You don't even need much religion. -- Sylvia Plath
If we are looking for models of self-sustaining communities, we need look no further than an old-growth forest. Or the old-growth cultures they raised in symbiosis with them. -- Robin Wall Kimmerer
I would tell my 25-year-old self to relax, just trust yourself, it's going to be okay. You're exactly where you're supposed to be right here and right now. -- Andrea Hall
I'm looking forward to being old, to be able to accept what I am and become self-sufficient. Mid-forties is a good age and it's not too far away. -- Stella Vine
Give me the old familiar world, post-office and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when it is beaten. -- Henry David Thoreau
The spiritual self of each of us is that part of us that will never grow old, or ill, or die, but it must be nurtured and invigorated! -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
No matter how old and glorious the models, sad indeed is the woman who sees fashion as a means of self-expression rather than an agent of social control. -- Julie Burchill
The general impression is that fifteen year-old Dolly remains morbidly uninterested in sexual matters, or to be exact, represses her curiosity in order to save her ignorance and self-dignity. -- Vladimir Nabokov
I don't have any regrets. If I could have talked to my 19- or 20-year-old self, I would have said, 'You're going to be fine. It ain't that serious!' -- Queen Latifah
By the time you are 30 you are still trying to make your 15-year-old self happy but you are a different person. You need to be brave and let go of that. -- Michael Sheen
I think if my eight-year-old self could see me at the Royal Albert Hall winning a prize for playing the Doctor on telly, he would need a stiff shot of Irn-Bru. -- David Tennant
The ending can only start with the beginning and end with self estrangement, as to become once again his own/old self. This is why every man is a continuous ending. -- Sorin Cerin
A person likes to think of himself in a certain way, and when something happens that makes that no longer possible, you mourn the old self. The person you thought you were. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
So the secret is just to say 'Yes!' and jump off from here. Then there is no problem. It means to be yourself, always yourself, without sticking to an old self. -- Shunryu Suzuki
She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every day more bitterly, that young girl's genuine independence, largeness, scope, and courage. -- Doris Lessing
You always feel like your 18-year-old self in some sense. And that's what walking through New York on a June evening feels like - you feel like it's Friday and you're 17 years old. -- John Darnielle

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