We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept – our own selves – that we love. Fernando Pessoa
...we all lie to ourselves; we tell our own selves more lies than we ever do other people. Philip K. Dick
If solid happiness we prize, Within our breast this jewel lies, And they are fools who roam. The world has nothing to bestow From our own selves our joys must flow, And that dear hut, our home. Nathaniel Cotton
These days we seem more bound to our bosses than ever before. We even identify our own selves with the jobs we do: "What do you do?" is the first question we ask each other at parties, as if a job title could express a fundamental truth about our personality. Tom Hodgkinson
We find in our children our own selves again, who might be made better than we are. Cassandra Clare
And sometimes we cling because the memory is so painful that we can't stop visiting it and hoping to make it come out differently. The risk of letting go is that we have to confront our own selves and our own possibilities. Amy Bloom