Quotes About Self-possession

I don't want to be owned by anyone.

My body parts are all I have left now that are only mine - the world owns everything else.

I sometimes feel like it's my world and everyone is just visiting.

I am kind of a cold guy and I don't suffer much because of the past.

Contemporaries of Alexander Hamilton noticed his conspicuous sense of self-possession, his unique combination of serenity and energy.

One needn't worry about turning heads if keeping one's own was a matter left unresolved.

A cat only has itself.

Whatever the crowd is - cheering, booing or whatever - it's not anything I bother to think about.

But if you think that only what is yours is yours, and that what is not your own is, just as it is, not your own, then no one will ever coerce you, no one will hinder you, you will blame no one, you will not accuse anyone, you will not do a single thing unwillingly, you will have no enemies, and no one will harm you, because you will not be harmed at all.

If this is what you came for, then I didn't send for you. Kafka (note to himself in journal)

A man is a beggar who only lives to the useful, and, however he may serve as a pin or rivet in the social machine, cannot be saidto have arrived at self-possession.

Your mother doesn't own you. Your father doesn't own you. You own you.

I can only bring peace to my children when I possess it myself.

No one can steal my peace of mind without my consent.

nO thing is yOur's except yOur "bOdy" -&- nO one is yOurs except yOur "sOul

You belong neither to God nor the state nor me. You belong to yourself and no one else.

The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed.

They say, they own a piece of land. I say, you don't even own your own body.

This is my mind, i own it!

If the master is not present in the house, all kinds of shady characters will take up residence there. When you inhabit your body, it will be hard for unwanted guests to enter.

The ability to contain excitation or feeling is self-possession. It is the third stage in the therapeutic program. The first two are self-awareness and self-expression. Self-possession is the stage in which the ego functions as the standard-bearer of a self that knows who it is and what it has to do. The self possesses an ego. It is the stage in which the self experiences its being as a fully mature man or woman.

It is my job to be composed.

This is my mind. Only I have the right to be here.

I am no longer one of Mr. Pontellier's possessions to dispose of or not. I give myself where I choose.