Quotes About Self

Sitting in that room, talking to Mr. Wright, I knew I had to get all of my identities in order. I realized how many identities I had, at a time when I really should have been focusing on having one.

i don't want my body to be a temple. i don't want it to be worshiped or congregated.

Every day I am someone else. I am myself- I know I am myself- but I am also someone else

Lo que tú sientes es absolutamente lo correcto para ti. Siempre recuerda eso.

If you want to live withinthe definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the initially painful and ultimately comforting process of finding it.

I'm still me, and eventually he will see that.

Si quieres vivir de acuerdo a tu propia verdad, debes estar dispuesto a pasar el proceso para descubrir cuál es que, al principio es doloroso, pero, a la postre, es reconfortante

The conclusion I reach: I don't like my body very much, but I'm not sure I'd like anyone else's body any better. They're all strange when you look at them for too long.

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. (...) But after that? If I showed myself a picture of myself from the shoulders down, would I be sure it was me? (...) I close my eyes and ask myself what my feet look like. I only kind of know. (...) I let it define me, but I can't even define it.

I feel more like myself than I usually do because as I swim, I don't need to fully exist.

Esta imperfección me parece bonita.

Esta es mi vida Soy una acumulación de objetos.

Sonhar e amar e transar. Nenhuma dessas coisas é uma identidade. Talvez quando as outras pessoas olham para nós, mas não para nós mesmos.

I am nowhere near wanting to kill myself. But I can understand feeling so detached from your own life. To feel that your connection to everyone else is so thin that all it would take is one decisive snip to be separated completely. If i don't cling, I drift. I feel that no one is holding me. In my life, I am the only one who holds.

We become, for a few short seconds, our own time zone.

Do you know what I learned? I learned that leaving is bullshit. Because you always take yourself wherever you go.

He hugs the thought to himself with guilty glee.

Inside, we are ageless...and when we talk to ourselves, it's the same age of the person we were talking to when we were little. It's the body that is changing around that ageless center.

Stay true to yourself. Let your voice ring out, and don't let anybody fiddle with it.

I scoffed at such old fashioned notions as duty, patriotism, the military virtues. And here I was, aged fifty, standing on guard at the very edge of the known world. To protect what? A hundred or so mud and wattle huts, three hundred savage strangers who do not even speak my tongue. And, of course, my own skin.

An American will fight for three things.'" "…a girl," Sam said. "Yes. A girl, himself, or 'to save the world.

Inside of us, but out of awareness, is the truth that "I already know everything I need to know.

I've often lost faith in myself, I've never lost it in my family

I might reinvent myself to strangers, but to this day, as far as my family is concerned, I'm still the one most likely to set your house on fire.