Quotes About Self

Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen

Either way, you were connected. By your desires. By your defiance. By the simple, complicated fact of who you were.

Even though the own world doesn't matter to her, she matter to the world

We wish we could offer you a creation myth, an exact reason why you are the way you are, why when you read this sentence, you will know it's about you.

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

reservation, n. 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.

There were days I felt like a girl and days I felt like a boy, and those days wouldn't always correspond with the body I was in. I still believed everyone when they said I had to be one or the other. Nobody was telling me a different story, and I was too young to think for myself. I had yet to learn that when it came to gender, I was both and neither.

You cannot live for anyone else's sake. As much as you may want to, you can't stay alive just because other people want you alive. You cannot stay alive for your parents. You cannot stay alive for your friends. And you have no responsibility to stay alive for them. You have no responsibility to anyone but yourself to live.

Her sense of humor is indistinguishable from her sense of self.

All he feels is the bored emptiness of the flat, flat world. And there's no one who bores him more than himself.

After a while, you have to be at peace with the fact that you simply are. There is no way to know why.

You have to be at peace with the fact that you simple are.

with you I feel real. but then I worry about the me that lies beneath.

And one of the values is the way being lost can lead you to see what you want to find. It helps you sense where you want to be found. Or who you want to be found by.

I am not the enter of anything.

Don't get trapped into thinking people are halves instead of wholes.

The only thing I am allowed, the only thing I am given, is myself. It is enough, but only barely.

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How much of my body is really me? My face is me, for sure. Anyone who looked at my face would know it was me.Even with my hair wet and drawn back it's me. But after that? If I showed myself a picture of myself from the shoulders down, would I be sure it was me? Could I identify myself that way? I close my eyes and ask myself what my feet look like. I only kind of know. Same with my hands. I have no idea what my back looks like. I let it define me, but I can't even define it.

I wake up the next morning in Beyoncé's body. Not the real Beyoncé. But a body remarkably like hers. All the curves in all the right places.

Sometimes perspective comes far too late. You cannot trust yourself. You think you can, but you can't. Not because you are selfish. You cannot live for anyone else's sake. As much as you may want to, you can't stay alive just because other people want you alive. You cannot stay alive for your parents. You cannot stay alive for your friends. And you have no responsibility to stay alive for them. You have no responsibility to anyone but yourself to live.

But now when I kissed her, I was always measuring how much of her was there. And I was wondering how much of me was left.

We are who we are, I said. And we'll be who we'll be. A book can make us feel that, but it can't invent that. It's already inside us.

We are who we are, and we'll be who we'll be. A book can make us feel that, but it can't invent that. It's already inside us.