Best Self Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“You had once asked me if I was afraid of death.”

“One hand was behind his back, and he held it out, presenting a bouquet of white and smoky purple lilies.”

“Because my past does not make the sum of me. I'm free to move on and let my life lessons put the wind behind the rest of my life.”

“If death is not, who is my enemy? Me”

“Ma mxejniex għalxejn. Kull mixja tagħlima.”

“Today is a new day and it brings with it a new set of opportunities for me to act on.”

“The minds of others I know well;”

“There is more and more I tell no one,”

“Weary of myself, and sick of asking”

“Not in the clamor of the crowded street,”

“I’ll walk, but not in old heroic traces,”

“Be who you are, even if it kills you.”

“In a field”

“What makes us leave what we love best?”

“How many people came and stayed a certain time,”

“If you're anything like me,”

“And then I feel the sun itself”

“We never know how high we are”

“I want to unfold.”

“I was the world in which I walked, and what I saw”

“I lock my door upon myself,”

“darkness falls upon Humanity”

“I've tried”

“the worst thing," he told me,”

“Beyond myself, somewhere,”

“I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.”

“Most of us have nicknames—annoying, endearing, embarrassing.”

“المرآة تعكس بدقة متناهية دون أن تخطئ ابداَ . لأنها وبكل بساطة لا تفكر”

“There was a way in which my grandmother's true self was not these guests' business; no one's true self was the business of more than a very small number of family members or close friends.”

“It’s a sort of furtiveness … Like we were a generation of furtive. You know, with an inner knowledge there’s no use flaunting on that level, the level of the ‘public’, a kind of beatness – I mean, being right down to it, to ourselves, because we all really know where we are – and a weariness with all the forms, all the conventions of the world … It’s something like that. So I guess you might say we’re a beat generation.”