Quotes About Self-possession

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.

The power to bring me out of solitude - or to push me back into it - had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine.

for me, the beauty of feminism is that it is a social and political movement that has redefined the power and obligation of the self: self-possession and self-regulation as a tool for social reform.

I would not allow anyone into the center of myself; I would make myself a place to go, deep inside, no matter what happened.

There's nothing wrong with a little self-possession, there's beauty in taking time for yourself just because you feel like it, and there's nothing wrong with not divulging every secret!

Sometimes I venture to call my soul my own

The fact is that those who do not see themselves but who see others, who fail to get a grasp of themselves but who grasp others, take possession of what others have but fail to possess themselves. They are attracted to what others enjoy but fail to find enjoyment in themselves.

The people who actually combat the world's injustice are not consumed by anger. They are clear-headed, self-possessed, and certain as to where their values lie.

Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.

If he couldn't search or retrieve or view his own past, then it wasn't really his. It was lost.

If a person gave your body to any stranger he met on is way, you would certainly be angry. And do you feel no shame in handing over your own mind to be confused and mystified by anyone who happens to verbally attack you?

that one thing I have control over? That shit is mine.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he justly entitled.

I didnt loose my mind, it was mine to give away

Quiet minds can't be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be supreme over ourselves. We are not our own masters.

For the first time, I was beginning to see that for a woman to speak her mind in any clear, unassailable, unapologetic way, she must first possess it.

3 Una mente "aprisionada" no es libre porque está poseída, o refrenada, por sí misma.

If you have property, you can't be property.

Moi, je suis l'écrivain, la pute, l'étrangère, la femme libre aussi. Je ne suis pas le « bien » qu'on possède et qu'on exhibe, qui console. Je ne sais pas consoler.

We do not possess our sensations, and through them we cannot possess ourselves.

I become very territorial about my identity because it's been hijacked by so many people with their own projections.

You must own nothing but yourself.