Self quotes

To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. - E.E. Cummings

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. - G. K. Chesterton

Our entire life, with our fine moral code and our precious freedom, consist ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are. - Jean Anoulih

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Anytime you make a person into something other than himself, you make a monster. - Roger Rosenblatt