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Truly enlightened people never seek to be like others. Rather, they seek to be superior to their former selves. — Robin Sharma

Have I ever really loved anyone at all,
or was it a lightning flash
which made me the shadow of my former self? — Vladimir Holan

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. — Ernest Hemingway,

But thinking back now makes me scared for my former self the way any mother would be scared for her teenage daughter doing what I did. — Sophia Amoruso

What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer. — Andre Gide

I can't think of anything I hate more than a former punk - they are the most self-righteous people in the world. — Caitlin Moran

She was just a shell of her former self, functioning and talking but hardly alive. — Sarah Dessen

The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self. — Whitney Young

I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self. — George Bernard Shaw

To live meant feeding my former self to my current self. — Cameron Conaway

You can either wonder or worry. It is better to choice the former. — Lailah Gifty Akita

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task. — Diogenes

Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death. — Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

Cast your former self aside; you have been redeemed. — Anonymous

... he stood behind her, tall and pale, like the ghost of his former self ... — Louisa May Alcott

You have no obligations to your former self, they are dumber than you and they don't exist. — Hank Green

Time is a vindictive bandit to steal the beauty of our former selves. We are left with sagging, rippled flesh and burning gums with empty sockets. — Raphael

Giving up alcohol or cigarettes is a lead-pipe cinch compared to the renunciation of complacence by a former (self-appointed) elite. — Margaret Halsey

In an age of computer manipulation, surrealism has become banal, a shadow of its former self. — Milton Glaser

Our best friend and our worst enemy reside within us. Unfortunately, most of us access the latter far more often than the former. — Maddy Malhotra

Religion becomes a hollow shell of its former self when ritual remains and thoughtful reflection disappears. — Nouman Ali Khan

Jim Stavridis is the former NATO commander who is sometimes on people's lists, also very plausible, self-possessed, someone with sobriety. — David Brooks

We have our self-importance. We also have our inadequacy. The former is a desperate invention of the latter. — Don DeLillo

There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self All I'm really. — Robin S. Sharma

I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self. — Adam Johnson

My former identity was lying around, somewhere, fragmented and buried, like shards from an earlier civilization. — Laurie Nadel

I'm a shadow of my former self, she announces. Vinny was a shadow to begin with, now she's a shadow of a shadow. — Kate Atkinson

I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy? — Victor Cruz

It depends on you, to keep pushing forward until you win or giving in. Always choice the former. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Let your former selves teach you, but never limit or define you — Yasmin Mogahed

You are emerging from the cocoon of your former self. There are no limits to the extent of the transformation that's possible for you. — Marianne Williamson