#self

I don't think of myself as an artist. I'm just a guy who can write. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#guy #i #just #myself #think

It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself. ↗

— Hector Hugh Munro

#learn #new #new ways #older #only

A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself. ↗

— Edvard Munch

#except #good #himself #other #person

I build a kind of wall between myself and t he model so that I can paint in peace behind it. Otherwise, she might say something that confuses and distracts me. ↗

— Edvard Munch

#between #build #confuses #distracts #i

I don't find myself to be the kind of person who is easily swayed. ↗

— Olivia Munn

#find #i #kind #myself #person

I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it's not imagination. It's just a way of watching. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#call #express #fiction #how #i

I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven't belonged to any company or any system. It isn't easy to live like this in Japan. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#been #belonged #company #easy #graduated

I couldn't lie to get myself fame and fortune. ↗

— Dave Pelzer

#fortune #get #i #lie #myself

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#love #love is #oneself #other #real

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#being busy #busy #consciousness #everyday #happiness