Quotes About Self

Philosophy not only begins with the individual, but also ends with the individual. For an individual is the final fact of life. He is an end in himself, and not a means to other creations of the human mind. The

The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or can not, so well do, for themselves -- in their separate, and individual capacities. In all that the people can individually do as well for themselves, government ought not to interfere.

I couldn't dream of a future, I couldn't reliably remember my past.

If there's no inner peace, people can't give it to you. The husband can't give it to you. Your children can't give it to you. You have to give it to you.

One of the enemy's sneaky attacks against the joy of our salvation is to put us in the spiral of self-condemnation.

I don't remember exactly when books became my refuge, but it was in the pages of a world created out of thin air that I began to find pieces I recognized as myself.

Control is just an illusion.

I know myself as mortal, but this raises the question: "What is I?" Am I an individual, or am I an evolving life stream composed of countless selves?

A vampire is a flexible metaphor. You know, death, sex, change, stagnation, loss of self, loss of agency, having to keep one's real self secret, the possibility of something lasting forever: love, hate, grief.

Angels invite themselves, but you invite your own demons.

Link Starbureiy and his handsome self.

There is nothing quite as wonderful as me. There never was, and never will be.

You must be who you are - that which you tell yourself and what you've convinced others to believe.

Against my will I stand beside my own reflection

The very worst part of you is me.

The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can actually trick yourself into feeling better.

What we take from the spirit world is only a reflection of what lies inside ourselves.

By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged.

Compromise is necessary ... so long as you never give up who you are. That isn't compromise; that's spiritual death. You have to remain true to yourself.

I have never in all my life considered you other people.

For that matter, thinking of one's self as exceptional is probably more the rule than not.

The liberation of adulthood as we'd conceived it from below was a pipe-dream; with oppressors deposed we became our own tyrants.

so i wasn't only afraid of becoming my mother, but a mother.

This pervasive craving to be recognized as special amounted to an abdication of power, an outsourcing of your core responsibilities. I spurned the fawning of strangers, but I did feel special to myself. I had found that "feeling special" was a private experience, and no one else's projected fascination could substitute for quiet absorption in your own life.