„Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.“

„If I can't really find a way to live with myself, I can't expect anyone else to live with me.“

—  Peter Sellers British film actor, comedian and singer 1925 - 1980

As quoted in The Hollywood Book of Extravagance: The Totally Infamous, Mostly Disastrous, and Always Compelling Excesses of America's Film and TV Idols (2007) by James Robert Parish, p. 95

„Compromise is said to be the way of the world and yet I find myself feeling sick trying to accept what it has done to me.“

—  Douglas Coupland, книга Life After God

Источник: Life After God (1994)

„They are like me, I tell myself. And in that way I protect myself against them. And in that way I protect myself against myself.“

—  Antonio Porchia Italian Argentinian poet 1885 - 1968

Ellos también son como yo, me digo. Y así me defiendo de ellos. Y así me defiendo de mí.
Voces (1943)

„I hope to keep on living the present in a way that I can always be proud of myself in front of tomorrow's me.“

—  Yuzuru Hanyu Japanese figure skater (1994-) 1994

Other quotes, 2015
Добавить примечание: (ja) 明日の自分が今の自分を見たら胸張っていられるように、そんな今を過ごし続けたいなという風に思ってます。
Источник: Interview with NHK on 15 June 2015, aired the same day in the evening news program News Watch 9.

„Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am - and what I need - is something I have to find out myself.“

—  Chinua Achebe Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic 1930 - 2013

„Give me, instead of beauty's bust,
A tender heart, a loyal mind,
Which with temptation I could trust,
Yet never linked with error find.“

—  George Darley Irish poet, novelist, and critic 1795 - 1846

Poem The Loveliness of Love http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~ridge/local/iinbid.html

„I can resist everything except temptation.“

—  Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

Lord Darlington, Act I
Вариант: I can resist everything except temptation
Источник: Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)

„For me sculpture is divinity. This is the only answer that I could find for myself. Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death. Through art, man achieves immortality and in this immortality we find God.“

—  Jacques Lipchitz American and French sculptor 1891 - 1973

Источник: Jacques Lipchitz: The Artist at Work, 1966, p. 189

„The thing is to understand myself: the thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die. That is what I now recognize as the most important thing.“

—  Sören Kierkegaard Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism 1813 - 1855

„For me, life would be worthless if there was not modern art and if I did not had the opportunity to express myself in it anyhow, now that I have gradually found the way I can express myself.“

—  Hendrik Werkman Dutch artist 1882 - 1945

version in original Dutch (origineel citaat van Hendrik Werkman, in het Nederlands): Voor mij zou het leven waardeloos zijn als er niet de moderne kunst was en als ik niet de mogelijkheid had om me daarin te uiten op welke manier dan ook, nu ik de wijze waarop ik mij kan uiten langzamerhand heb gevonden.
Quote of Werkman in his letter to August Henkels, June 1942, as cited by Doeke Sijens in H. N. Werkman - Leven & Werk - 1882-1945, ed. A. de Vries, J. van der Spek, D. Sijens, M. Jansen; WBooks, Groninger Museum / Stichting Werkman, 2015 (transl: Fons Heijnsbroek), p. 64
1940's

„I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it. Everybody is a real one to me, everybody is like some one else too to me. No one of them that I know can want to know it and so I write for myself and strangers.“

—  Gertrude Stein, книга The Making of Americans

The Making of Americans (1925)

„I find a way to ground myself, literally by using the ground of places near where I live.“

—  Anne Simpson Canadian poet 1956

Susan Olding Interview (February 23, 2010)

„I have found out that though the ways in which I can make myself useful are few, yet the work open to me is endless.“

—  Helen Keller, книга Optimism

Optimism (1903)
Контексте: I, too, can work, and because I love to labor with my head and my hands, I am an optimist in spite of all. I used to think I should be thwarted in my desire to do something useful. But I have found out that though the ways in which I can make myself useful are few, yet the work open to me is endless.

„Tell me a way you think this can work."
"We'll find a way," I tell her.
"That's not an answer. It's a hope."
"Hope's gotten us this far. Not answers.“

—  David Levithan, книга Every Day

Источник: Every Day

„A little bit goes a long way — it's true. And I sure am glad I went such a long, long way to find that out for myself.“

—  AnnaSophia Robb American actress, singer, and model 1993

How I Spent My Summer Vacation (2008)

„Myself, I try to search for the new way, always trying to set up a new possibility and to find the new tools to express myself. To reach a broader audience.“

—  Ai Weiwei Chinese concept artist 1957

2010-, Ai Weiwei, interview by Christiane Amanpour, 2010

„This is my tendency; but can I say
That this my thought leads the true, only way?
I only know it constant leads, and I obey.“

—  Margaret Fuller American feminist, poet, author, and activist 1810 - 1850

Life Without and Life Within (1859), The One In All

„Understand me who can, for I understand myself.“

—  Francesco Petrarca, Il Canzoniere

Canzone 105, st. 2
Il Canzoniere (c. 1351–1353), To Laura in Life

„Nobody could believe in me the way I believed in myself.“

—  Yanni Greek pianist, keyboardist, composer, and music producer 1954

Yanni in Words. Miramax Books. Co-author David Rensin