“See yourself as you really are.”

“If you zoom close-if you get really close to someone, if you really get close to yourself-then you lose the other person, you lose yourself entirely. You get so close you can't see anything anymore.”

David Levithan book Every You, Every Me

“Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.”

Ellen DeGeneres (1958) American stand-up comedian, television host, and actress

“You do it to yourself, you do,
And that's why it really hurts,
Is you do it to yourself, just you,
You and no-one else,
You do it to yourself.”

Thom Yorke (1968) English musician, philanthropist and singer-songwriter

“The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

“Earth to Bella - You're treading water successfully.
But are you really?
Don't you want to see the deep?
It's not so hard.
Just forgive yourself and feel the water open in.”

Brandon Boyd (1976) American rock singer, writer and visual artist

“You're yourself," Tana said, grinning. "More purely yourself than anyone I know. And if you can't see who that is anymore, then see yourself the way I see you.”

Holly Black book The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

“Try to realize it's all within yourself,
No one else can make you change.
And to see you're really only very small
And life flows in within you and without you.”

George Harrison (1943–2001) British musician, former member of the Beatles

“Be who you really are, not who you allowed yourself to become.”

Glenn Beck (1964) U.S. talk radio and television host

“How can you be lonely? You've got yourself, haven't you? If you ever lose yourself, then you'll really be lonely…”

Joseph Delaney (1945) British writer