Quotes About Self

He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society: or fear of oneself. He was not afraid of himself. But he was quite consciously afraid of society, which he knew by instinct to be a malevolent, partly-insane beast.

Vanda (as Dunayev): When she becomes herself--an individual. Thomas (as Kushemski): you only say that because you yourself are so individual. Vanda (as Dunayev): A man usually says that to a woman whose individuality he is about to undermine.

The ego corrupts our mindset in five ways: (a) It chooses what we focus on, (b) it makes what we see all about us, (c) it concludes that all negative experiences are due to a deficiency within ourselves, (d) it magnifies the relevance of our focus, and (e) it causes us to believe that we can think our way out of a situation that is beyond our control or understand something that is unknowable.

you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy and angry all of the days of your life."9

There are times when I worry that I've already lost myself. That is, that my self is so inseparable from being with you that if we were to separate, I would no longer be. I save this thought for when I feel the darkest discontent. I never meant to depend so much on someone else.

Freedom is also about what you will allow yourself to do.

When it comes to true dance, it's not about how you look, it's all about the joy you feel.

only , adj . Thats the dilemma isn't it? when you're single, there's the sadness and joy of only me . And when you're paired, there's the sadness and joy of only you .

I say good-bye to the part of myself that misses him so much.

This is my life, I think. I am an accumulation of objects.

your life isn't out there waiting, so don't think all you have to do is find it and get it. no, your life is right here. and, yeah, it sucks. lives usually do. so if you want things to change, you don't need to get a life. you need to get off your ass.

You have a responsibility to your future self, who is someone you might not even know, might not even understand yet. Because until you die, that future self has as much of a life as you do. [...] Your life is not disposable.

If you zoom close-if you get really close to someone, if you really get close to yourself-then you lose the other person, you lose yourself entirely. You get so close you can't see anything anymore.

I don't like it when you use my shampoo, because then your hair smells like me, not you.

After a while, you have to be at peace with the fact that you simple are

Every you, every me. Fractals. Fractures.

I just needed to realize that style was like personality - it didn't always have to be consistent; it just had to be something you lived with.

Every day I am someone else. I am myself-I know I am myself-but I am also someone else. It has always been like this.

Fallible, adj. I was hurt. Of course I was hurt. But in a perverse way, I was relieved that you were the one who mad the mistake. It made me worry less about myself.

There are times when I'm alone and I think, This is it. This is actually the natural state. All I need are my thoughts and my small acts of creation and my ability to go or do whatever I want to go or do. I am myself, and that is the point. Pairing is a social construction. It is by no means necessary for everyone to do it. Maybe I'm better like this. Maybe I could live my life in my own world, and then simply leave it when it's time to go.

It's always easy to blame other people for holding you back. But sometimes, the only person holding you back is . . . well . . . you.

If I were in a different body, this would be the time I would lean down and kiss her. If I were in a different body, that kiss could transform the night from off to on. If I were in a different body, she would see me inside. She would see what she wanted to see. But now it's awkward.

This is what my voice sounds like I don't need to be talking to someone else To hear it

Without you I wouldn't have been able to contain the hate. I would have used it against myself. You're the one who helped me control it. My mind spun out to other things. But it always came back to you.