Quotes About Self

Federico Ozanan añade: «Hay dos clases de orgullo: el que está contento de sí mismo, que es el más corriente y el menos peligroso; y el que está descontento de sí, porque esperaba mucho de él mismo y se ha visto defraudado en su esperanza.

Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.

But to do this kind of work, you have to be very strong, otherwise you lose your personality, your identity.

Uno recién sabe frente a la vida, la vida es la gran prueba de nosotros mismos.

I)n memory, remorse wraps the self.

Do not say I if it means so little, holds the little forming no one. You are not sick, you are injured-- you ache for the rest of your life.

Again Serena's frustrations, her disappointments, exist within a system you understand not to try to understand in any fair-minded way because to do so is to understand the erasure of the self as systemic, as ordinary.

Recognition of this lack might break you apart. Or recognition might illuminate the erasure the attempted erasure triggers. Whether such discerning creates a healthier, if more isolated, self, you can't know. In any case, Youngman doesn't speak to this kind of anger. He doesn't say that witnessing the expression of this more ordinary and daily anger might make the witness believe that a person is "insane." And

The worst injury is feeling you don't belong so much to you—

channeling his assertion that the less that is communicated the better. Be ambiguous. This type of ambiguity could also be diagnosed as dissociation and would support Serena's claim that she has had to split herself off from herself and create different personae. Now

contain. "You must change your life." And if we hardly know ourselves, "what are we to do about this terribly significant business of other people?" Zuckerman poses the question in American

Because if the decisions you make about where you invest your blood, sweat, and tears are not consistent with the person you aspire to be, you'll never become that person.

But Jesus changes your attitude towards yourself and towards other people.

That was the way with Man; it had always been that way. He had carried terror with him. And the thing he was afraid of had always been himself.

on the list of priorities my ass is number one, and my ass is also number two. My soul's in a distant third place.

Breeding is what individuality projects.

Losing in any game is not gambling, but losing yourself is.

Not everyone believes in the beginning and existence of everything, except of himself/herself.

The world can only be limitless and boundless if you let it control yourself and rule over you.

YOU YOU YOU your eyes, thick as a high school scrapbook crackling and yellow, curling at the edges a book of myths in which i do not appear.

Now you've got to ask yourself one question. Do I feel lucky? - Inspector Harry Callahan

Friedell caught the essential truth about people prone to catch-all theories: they aren't in search of the truth, they're in search of themselves.

Because the trivial concerns oneself, one fails to see it might be boring.

Sartre's existentialism, where it essentially means having the chutzpah to do what it takes so that you may suit yourself—not quite the same thing as being true to yourself.)