Quotes About Self

Take charge of your attitude. Don't let someone else choose it for you.

An individual cannot know what he is till he has made himself real by action.

Fear is nothing except a drain of energy and Not a power unto itself. Trust in yourself, For therein lies the true power.

Real solutions are discovered only where they actually exist Within the individual's own essence.

These two truths are the same in weight and importance. Accept and love WHO and WHERE you are now, and all good things shall find you there.

Through the doors of perception Down the corridors of uncertainty Into the room of self doubt Opens the window of opportunity.

He didn't want the friends of the different stages of his life to meet. Their encounter would almost be between different facets of himself, face to face.

I'm still me, I want to say to him, your son, but that would hardly help if I am currently everything wrong with the world.

After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.

You make your own life.

Even though its common knowledge these days, it never ceases to amaze me that all the richness of our mental life - all our feelings, our emotions, our thoughts, our ambitions, our love life, our religious sentiments and even what each of us regards us his own intimate private self - is simply the activity of these little specks of jelly in your head, in your brain. There is nothing else.

So here is the greatest irony of all: that the self that almost by definition is entirely private is to significant extent a social construct.

Suddenly it becomes possible that there are just others, that we ourselves are an "other" among others.

Rokkahaa mie. Antero on etunim. Antiksihaa minnuu on sanottu koko ikän, ja niin mie sanon itekkii.

I have preserved my identity, put its credibility to the test and defended my dignity. What good this will bring the world I don't know. But for me it is good.

When all else fails, go for the ego.

It forced me to realise that I'd been blaming you for not being flawless. And none of us is flawless.' Another sigh. 'I was so angry with myself for what happened to Michael and Lucy that I had to turn my anger somewhere else and you were the easiest target.

You can't rid of yourself suspicion that easily; once it appears it exists independently; and then it takes over, and the person has no control over it.

It does seem ... a basic attitude of humankind, this irrational belief in the effectiveness of one's own actions.

because it requires the total surrender of my will and finally, ultimately, the wholesale destruction of my ego. That is hard. It I'm going to another world, I cry out, I want to be ME in it.

As everyone knows, in my profession we go around screwing each other as much as possible, mostly to see ourselves do it. Narcissists are always making love to number one.

There is something in me in the deepest part of me, at the center of me, something infinitely barren that doesn't weep when I weep that doesn't laugh when I laugh but seems to say eternally I'm here, indifferent to everything.

You realize that if you are to change your belief about God, you will also have to change your belief about yourself.

People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself.