“But you ain't part of it, are you?" said Granny conversationally. "You try, but you always find yourself watchin' yourself watchin' people, eh? Never quite believin' anything? Thinkin' the wrong thoughts?”

“However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself. Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.”

Aidan Chambers (1934) British children's writer

“The more you try to be interested in other people, the more you find out about yourself.”

Thea Astley (1925–2004) Australian novelist

“If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

“I ain't never found no place for me to fit. Seem like all I do is start over. It ain't nothing to find no starting place in the world. You just start from where you find yourself.”

August Wilson Joe Turner's Come and Gone

“When you find yourself in a hole, quit digging.”

Will Rogers (1879–1935) American humorist and entertainer

“If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.”

Mo Willems (1968) American children's illustrator and writer

“You never find yourself until you face the truth.”

Pearl Bailey (1918–1990) American singer

“Yo can always take back the lost parts of yourself if you can find and recognize them.”

Jonathan Carroll (1949) novelist, short story writer

“You are James Herondale, said Uncle Jem. As you always were. Part your mother, part your father, part yourself. I would not change any part of you if I could.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author