#self

When you start becoming really successful, the demons start to tempt you - the demons of vanity and self importance, drug abuse, the feelings of fraudulence. But, it's also a thrill. That's what I found weird. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#also #becoming #demons #feelings #found

My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me. ↗

— John Hawkes

#around #authenticity #being #cliche #complacency

He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#justly #others #undervalued #who

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#any #bewildered #considerable #face #finally

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#doubt #fool #going #greatest #greatest obstacle

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self! ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#dungeon #heart #inexorable #jailer #other

It's great fun if you get a good piece of writing and you can pretend to be someone else, tell a story that needs to be told, make some kind of connection. I've always fancied myself as a leading man, but I really doubt whether anyone else sees me that way. ↗

— Colin Hay

#anyone #connection #doubt #else #fancied

We know, in other words, the general conditions in which what we call, somewhat misleadingly, an equilibrium will establish itself: but we never know what the particular prices or wages are which would exist if the market were to bring about such an equilibrium. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#bring #call #conditions #equilibrium #establish

I proved to myself that if I believe in something and set my mind to it I could actually accomplish it. ↗

— Salma Hayek

#actually #believe #could #i #i believe

How I would describe my characters is absolutely different from how I would describe myself. ↗

— Salma Hayek

#characters #describe #different #how #i