Quotes About Self

Every extreme attitude is a fight from the self.

I put priority on such artists who focus on the world of "oblivion" and who consider placing themselves into the world of "oblivion" as fundamental to their attitude for their expression.

Kindness to self will put you in the perfect attitude and position to be kind to others.

I don't want to have to give up me, in order to be his.

You can't lose your identity unless you give it up. No one can take it from you

But you have to believe in something. Yourself first of all. Each other. And if you're lucky, the prince and princess live to be very old.

she'd gotten in the mail: the belief that she was

Better to die with pride than live in shame, Arra retorted. Kurda cursed quietly to himself. How about it, Darren? he asked. Will you face death just to prove yourself to these fools? No, I said, and saw a pained look cross Mr. Crepsley's face. But I'll face death to prove myself to me , I added. When the red-cloaked vampire heard that, he beamed proudly and raised a clenched fist in salute.

The key thing is managed awareness of your role in the world and history. Think too much and you know you are nothing. Think just enough and you know you are small, but important to some. That's the best you can do.

Having a matrix of preferences presented as your essence, as the whole you? Maybe that was it. It was some kind of mirror, but it was incomplete, distorted.

I live because I do not exist.

Those who scorn you taunt only themselves -- I knew this without reading one word; because in reading one is reminded of the truth man is given at birth -- by man I mean man and woman.

You can fool everyone else, but you can't fool your own mind.

How can you turn yourself into something you want to be when you're alredy what you are?

I am Billy Dean. This is the truth. This is my tail.

When you pay yourself first, what you're really doing is putting yourself first.

It had forced him into being a different person, as though a stranger's personality and attendant quirks had been superimposed over his own. But now the stranger's footprint was Decker. I am now the stranger. I'm a stranger in my own body.

A squatter for life is inhabiting my mind. And he happens to be me.

When there's trouble I don't like running, but I'm afraid I got more in common with who I was, than who I am becoming

Sometimes I don't feel as if I'm a person at all. I'm just a collection of other people's ideas.

I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously. (2012)

It is especially painful when narcissists suffer memory loss because they are losing parts of the person they love most.

We tell ourselves that we lie to protect others, but the self usually comes out looking damn good in the process.

Personal narrative is not simply opening up a vein and letting the blood flow toward anyone willing to stare. The historical self is created to keep dissonance at bay and render the subject palatable in the present.