Quotes About Self

You don't want to be you anymore. Of course you don't. Who would?

As man imagines himself to be, so shall he be, and he is that which he imagines." So said Paracelsus in the fifteenth century.

No one warned you that having children reduced you right down to some smaller, rudimentary, primitive version of yourself, where your talents

Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself.

Nakedness makes us democratic, adornment makes us individuals.

I am convinced that we not only love ourselves in others, but hate ourselves in others too.

Im so cool even I want to be me.

Since I be on TV I turn it on see me, hey Im so cool even I wanna be me.

I look in the flames and see the hotter me.

And now here he was in my kitchen. Smelling like apple pies and looking at me with a direct seriousness that made him even cuter. The bruising spreading up the side of his face had halted, and under it he was very pretty. Not jock-pretty, or the hurtful kind of pretty that tells you a guy is too busy taking care of his royal self to think about you.

I'm just not a private person. It's not like I do things because I want things to be public it's just that's my way of expressing myself, and I happen to be very famous.

My mother was a real person. I am not a real person.

No one will actually come out and say this nowadays, but women are at their best when they're writing about men: their husbands, their fathers, their lost loves. It's when they start writing about themselves that they become unreadable.

I don't know if she is outside of me or inside of me, but she is here. I feel her love for me. I feel my love reach her.

I just find it extraordinary that you think you have something to say.

Jag skriver inte för att jag tror att jag har något att säga. Jag skriver för att om jag inte gör det känns allt bara värre [karaktärens ord]

He'd always been the same person. He marveled at how in books people looked back fondly to remembered selves as if they were lost acquaintances. But he'd never been anything but this one self.

What I have had for the past six years, what has been constant and steady in my life is the novel I've been writing. This has been my home, the place I could always retreat to. The place I could sometimes even feel powerful, I tell them. The place where I am most myself. Maybe some of you, I tell them, have found this place already. Maybe some of you will find it years from now. My hope is that some of you will find it for the first time today by writing.

Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.

I said "Somebody should do something about that." Then I realized I am somebody.

I always wondered why somebody didn't do something about that. And then I realized I was somebody.

always wondered why somebody didn't do something about that. And then I realized I was somebody.

Who are we? That is the first question. It is a question almost impossible to answer. But we all agree that the busy self occupied in our daily activities is not quite the real self. We are quite sure we have lost something in the mere pursuit of living.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it, and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.