Quotes About Former Self

#1. I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.

Adam Johnson

#2. I'm a shadow of my former self, she announces. Vinny was a shadow to begin with, now she's a shadow of a shadow.

Kate Atkinson

#3. I had to re-write "Philosophy" a lot. It was more obscure than what's in the book now, even! Some things I had to go back to and excise my former self, who was even more dense. I think you should teach whatever you want, Brian! That's the point of books like White Girls, to help free our thoughts!

Hilton Als

#4. There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self All I'm really.

Robin S. Sharma

#5. But thinking back now makes me scared for my former self the way any mother would be scared for her teenage daughter doing what I did.

Sophia Amoruso

#6. As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity.

Simon Newcomb

#7. She tried to imagine her former self. Enemy. Prisoner. Friend? Daughter. Spy. Prisoner again. "What am I now?"
Sarsine held both of Kestrel's hands. "What ever you want to be.

Marie Rutkoski

#8. The most difficult journey any of us ever take in our adulthood is the return to our parents' house. A home visit makes us recall all of the childhood events that formed us. Returning home reacquaints us with family members and our former self.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#9. She was just a shell of her former self, functioning and talking but hardly alive.

Sarah Dessen

#10. If you are a great news organization, you can't have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your scale is reduced to a fraction of its former self.

Carl Bernstein

#11. One of the great natural phenomena is the way in which a tube of toothpaste suddenly empties itself when it hears that you are planning a trip, so that when you come to pack it is just a twisted shell of its former self, with not even a cubic millimeter left to be squeezed out.

Robert Benchley

#12. There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

Ernest Hemingway,

#13. Giving up alcohol or cigarettes is a lead-pipe cinch compared to the renunciation of complacence by a former (self-appointed) elite.

Margaret Halsey

#14. If you take my own life, the longer you stay in a country, you almost lose your former self and become this third-party person who is caught in between two worlds.

Greg Poehler

#15. Do not feed your ego and your problems, with your attention ... Slowly, surely, the ego will lose weight, until one fine day it will be nothing but a thin ghost of its former self. You will be able to see right through it, to the divine presence that shines in each of us.

Eknath Easwaran

#16. Religion becomes a hollow shell of its former self when ritual remains and thoughtful reflection disappears.

Nouman Ali Khan

#17. Cast your former self aside; you have been redeemed.

Anonymous

#18. It was astonishing that for some considerable distance around the mould growth the staphococcal colonies were undergoing lysis. What had formerly been a well-grown colony was now a faint shadow of its former self ... I was sufficiently interested to pursue the subject.

Alexander Fleming

#19. In an age of computer manipulation, surrealism has become banal, a shadow of its former self.

Milton Glaser

#20. You are emerging from the cocoon of your former self. There are no limits to the extent of the transformation that's possible for you.

Marianne Williamson

#21. To live meant feeding my former self to my current self.

Cameron Conaway

#22. The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.

Whitney Young

#23. The once-great country into which I'd been born now resembled its former self in name only. It didn't matter who was in charge. Those people were rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic and everyone knew it.

Ernest Cline

#24. I'd say to any woman, get out of that bad relationship that's turning you into a shell of your former self. Learn from it and get out. Then wait; enjoy yourself and your friends because, when what you want comes along, you'll spot it.

Cat Deeley

#25. I have reared, or helped to rear, five children and the scariest bit, bar none, is the learning-to-drive part. It has filled me with anxiety not only about the children, but also about my former self and my friends.

Jane Smiley

#26. If my former self and my current self met for coffee, they'd get along OK, but they'd both probably walk out of the Starbucks shaking their heads and saying to themselves, "That guy is kinda delusional."

A. J. Jacobs

#27. ... he stood behind her, tall and pale, like the ghost of his former self ...

Louisa May Alcott

#28. What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.

Andre Gide

#29. Have I ever really loved anyone at all,
or was it a lightning flash
which made me the shadow of my former self?

Vladimir Holan

#30. You have no obligations to your former self, they are dumber than you and they don't exist.

Hank Green

#31. Love changes us and helps us move forward in life. It often helps us become the people we've always wanted to be and move away from the people we were. Love transforms us in the best of ways, allowing us only to look back on a memory of our former self.

Adam Wilde

#32. I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self.

George Bernard Shaw

#33. I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy?

Victor Cruz

#34. presentation, she looked drawn, as old as the limestone hills behind her property. Her facial skin was marbled, hair greying at the roots. She had grown frail, as though she might disintegrate at the first touch; she was a desiccated, vulnerable shadow of her former self and it was hard to

Carol Drinkwater

#35. Presume not that I am the thing I was;
For God doth know, so shall the world perceive,
That I have turn'd away my former self;
So will I those that kept me company.

William Shakespeare

#36. I can't think of anything I hate more than a former punk - they are the most self-righteous people in the world.

Caitlin Moran

#37. Her two outstanding characteristics were self-confidence and candor. The latter sometimes got her into hot water Durrance later told Charlotte, but the former kept it from scalding her.

Olive Higgins Prouty

#38. You have two voices: the one you speak with and the one you think with. While the former is the one others hear, of greater importance is the one you hear.

Stephen Richards

#39. Your value and self-worth is not found in your former lover, not in the loving words of they spoke, not in the gentle ways that they held you, not in the sweetness of their kiss; but found in the love that you have for yourself.

Forrest Curran

#40. Jim Stavridis is the former NATO commander who is sometimes on people's lists, also very plausible, self-possessed, someone with sobriety.

David Brooks

#41. My former identity was lying around, somewhere, fragmented and buried, like shards from an earlier civilization.

Laurie Nadel

#42. Truly enlightened people never seek to be like others. Rather, they seek to be superior to their former selves.

Robin Sharma

#43. I entertain the idea that if my present life is the punishment for a former life, then I would never want to meet myself as the self of this former life.

Sam Pink

#44. I'm broken, I have a crack in me for all my life. I was made a woman prematurely, criminally early, and initiated into life from its worst side, in the false, boulevard interpretation of a self-confident aging parasite from former times, who profited from everything and allowed himself everything.

Boris Pasternak

#45. Time is a vindictive bandit to steal the beauty of our former selves. We are left with sagging, rippled flesh and burning gums with empty sockets.

Raphael

#46. Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

#47. We have our self-importance. We also have our inadequacy. The former is a desperate invention of the latter.

Don DeLillo

#48. Consider suffering's simultaneous self-absorption and incitement to empathy. The former refigures the the self by reducing you to symptoms, conditions, enduring. The latter refigures the self by expanding it.

Zach Savich

#49. Certainly, for time out of mind, an obsessive dwelling on happier former days has been synonymous with getting older, while it was the juvenescent who rushed with open arms to embrace the future.

Will Self

#50. Dan Coats, retiring senator from Indiana, a mild-mannered man, a former United States ambassador to Germany, former congressman, said of Ted Cruz he's the most self-centered, narcissistic, pathological liar I have ever seen.And he said, you can quote me on that.

Mark Shields

#51. Say I feel all sad and self-indulgent, then get stung by a wasp, my misery feels quite abstract and I long just to be in spiritual pain once more - 'damn you tiny assassin, clad in yellow and black, how I crave my former innocence where melancholy was my only trial'.

Russell Brand

#52. It depends on you, to keep pushing forward until you win or giving in. Always choice the former.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#53. A true military officer is in one particular like a true monk. Not with more self-abnegation will the latter keep his vows of monastic obedience than the former his vows of allegiance to martial duty.

Herman Melville

#54. You can either wonder or worry. It is better to choice the former.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#55. As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

Diogenes

#56. Heritage Action is a self-interested fundraising organization led by a former Giuliani staffer who is not taking counsel from real conservatives ... It is a worthless organization to the conservative movement. I'll be the first to say that.

Geoff Davis

#57. Accepting the reality of our sinfulness means accepting our authentic self. Judas could not face his shadow; Peter could. The latter befriended the impostor within; the former raged against him.

Brennan Manning

#58. The circle of indifference has the self at its centre. The circle of compassion has others at the centre.
The former leads to apathy; the latter to empathy.

Shubha Vilas

#59. Let your former selves teach you, but never limit or define you

Yasmin Mogahed

#60. 'The Red' is the first book in a trilogy that gained a big following as a self-published e-book, and is now out in paper from Saga. It introduces us to reluctant hero Shelley, a former anti-war activist who chooses to join the military rather than serve jail time after being arrested at a protest.

Annalee Newitz

#61. Two loves have made two different cities: self-love hath made a terrestrial city, which rises in contempt of God; and Divine Love hath made a celestial one, which rises in contempt of self. The former glories in itself - the latter in God.

Saint Augustine

#62. Our best friend and our worst enemy reside within us. Unfortunately, most of us access the latter far more often than the former.

Maddy Malhotra