Old Self Quotes - Page 2

• You might think you made a new world or a new self, but your old self is always gonna be there, just below the surface, and if something happens, it'll stick its head out and say 'Hi.' You don't seem to realize that. You were made somewhere else.

  Haruki Murakami

  Thinking, Self, Somewhere Else

  "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle". Book by Haruki Murakami, 1994.

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• 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

  Life, Pain, Sacrifice

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• 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

  Cancer, Years, Doctors

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• What's amazing to me now is that I actually recall fixating on the fact that my thighs a-l-m-o-s-t touched at the top....If I could go back in time and slap my eighteen-year-old self, I would. I would tell her to snap out of it, because that's the best you thighs will ever be. You should take pictures of your thighs right now so you can remember how amazing they were!

  Anita Renfroe

  Self, Years, Facts

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• 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

  Self, Rejects You, No Turning Back

  Edith Wharton (2010). “The House of Mirth”, p.163, Giunti Editore

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• 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

  Attitude, Ambition, Self

  Leroy Neiman (2013). “All Told: My Art and Life Among Athletes, Playboys, Bunnies, and Provocateurs”, p.121, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I can feel my old self come out more and more in trainings.

  Charlie Davies

  Self, Training, Feels

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• 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

  Being Yourself, Mean, Secret

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• I'm finally able to tell you... that I will be playing Belle in Disney's new live-action Beauty and the Beast! It was such a big part of my growing up, it almost feels surreal that I'll get to dance to 'Be Our Guest' and sing 'Something There'. My six year old self is on the ceiling - heart bursting. Time to start some singing lessons. I can't wait for you to see it.

  Emma Watson

  Growing Up, Heart, Self

  FaceBook post by Emma Watson from Jan 26, 2015

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• 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

  Self, Years, Would Be

  "Miley Cyrus: The Billboard Cover Story" by Ann Donahue, www.billboard.com. May 28, 2010.

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• 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

  Friday, New York, June

  "The Mountain Goats". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. October 1, 2012.

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• For a while, Mirabelle believes there will be a moment when he will cave in and let himself love her, but eventually she lets the idea go. She hits bottom. She dwells in the muck for several months, not depressed exactly, but involved in a mourning that at first she thinks is for Ray but soon realizes is for the loss of her old self.

  Steve Martin

  Believe, Loss, Thinking

  Steve Martin (2001). “Shopgirl”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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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

  Wisdom, Real, Islamic

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• We were not always 70, or rather our 70 is an accumulation of all the other ways we were. Our 5-year-old selves became our 10-year-old selves, and so on and on; and if we unpack our selves, the full album appears. Every moment is a part of the following moment, and we are all a continuum.

  Anne Roiphe

  Self, Years, Age

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• Tayend nodded. “I know it won’t. I admit I was worried about you, but you are still your old self, underneath.” Dannyl straightened in protest. “Underneath what?” The Elyne stood up, waving one hand in Dannyl’s direction. “All…that.” “I’m reeling at your descriptive clarity,” Dannyl told him.

  Trudi Canavan

  Self, Hands, Clarity

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• Remember me? I'm back to my old self again. No responsibilities, no attachments, no encumbrances. I don't want to own anything, love anyone, or get too attached to people, places or things. It's a rule that seems to work well for me.

  Danielle Steel

  Responsibility, Attachment, Self

  Danielle Steel (2004). “Second Chance”, Random House LLC

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• There was a burst of laughter so sudden Miri jumped to her feet in alarm. Bena and Liana had pushed Peder out of the bed and onto the floor. He in turn leaped on Liana's bed, clinging to it and laughing as the girls tugged at his ankles. "So, are you two betrothed?" Katar asked. "No," Miri said shortly "Ohh." Karter smirked, one eyebrow raised, and she looked altogether more like her old self. "It appears I stumbled upon a topic of conversation even more dangerous than revolution.

  Shannon Hale

  Girl, Laughter, Self

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• To gain your heart's desire you have to lose some part of your old life, your old self. To do that you have to have courage; without it, you can't make the leap. And if you don't make the leap you have only three choices: You can hate yourself for not taking the chance, you can hate the person from whom you've sacrificed your happiness, or you can hate the one who offered you happiness, and blame them for your lack of courage, convince yourself it wasn't real.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Hate, Real, Heart

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Hit List”, p.180, Hachette UK

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• What's it like then?" asked Old Bailey. "Being dead?" The marquis sighed. And then he twisted his lips up into a smile, and with a glitter of his old self, he replied, "Live long enough, Old Bailey, and you can find out for yourself.

  Neil Gaiman

  Self, Long, Glitter

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• She had tricked him. She had made him leave his old self behind and come into her world, and then before he was really at home in it but too late to go back, she had left him stranded there--like an astronaut wandering about on the moon. Alone.

  Katherine Paterson

  Home, Moon, Self

  Katherine Paterson (1995). “Bridge to Terabithia”, Hippo Bks

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• Poppy was now almost well. She still slept more than usual, but when she wasn't sleeping she tromped around the doctor's house pulling spoons off the table and spilling cups of water and crumpling pages of books. That is, she was almost her old self.

  Jeanne DuPrau

  Book, Sleep, Doctors

  Jeanne DuPrau (2012). “The Books of Ember Omnibus”, p.211, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• When life appears to be working against you, when your luck is down, when the supposedly wrong people show up, or when you slip up and return to old, self-defeating habits, recognize the signs that you're out of harmony with intention.

  Aldous Huxley

  Life, Motivational, Self

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• How different the world would look, how different the state of our nation would be, if there were more sanctified priestly souls! These are souls who have the power to bless, for they intercede with sanctified hearts. They never begin their daily time of intercessory prayer without having first brought to the cross all that is unholy in their lives, so that their old self can be crucified there with Jesus, the sacrificial Lamb.

  Basilea Schlink

  Jesus, Prayer, Heart

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• 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

  Girl, Self, Years

  Doris Lessing (2010). “Stories”, p.494, Vintage

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• 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

  Regret, Years, Self

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