Quotes About Self

could it be???? Timothy Speaks, who had so many pierced holes in his ears you could have torn the lobe right off, effortlessly ripped it loose the same way you might separate a stamp from a sheet.

even then that without them, I was nothing. Not a son or a brother but just a boy—and

A memoir is a work of sustained narrative prose controlled by an idea of the self under obligation to lift from the raw material of life a tale that will shape experience, transform the event, deliver wisdom.

Either way, but especially the latter, hurt the feelings he supposedly didn't have.

The you must be there for the I to find itself. Trust in you gives me trust in myself. In the encounter between the you and the I, faith is born. I am so truly I because I have faith in you. Only the I that comes about through faith can have faith.

later, he put such questions before us. If all the trappings were stripped away, leaving only my true self, who would I be? Am I living fully as that self in every moment? And when it ends, will my story have meaning

You must learn one thing. The world was made to be free in. Give up all the other worlds Except the one in which you belong.

one small thing I've learned these years, how to be alone, and at the edge of aloneness how to be found by the world.

We can depend on nobody in this world, and sometimes we even betray ourselves

On the Road that I have taken, one day walking I awaken, amazed to see where I've come, where I'm going, where I'm from.

Don't tell me what's necessary, you presumptupus pup. What's necessary is whatever I wish to do, regardless of how unnecessary it might be.

In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths.

Doubt is poison. It leads to a loss of faith in yourself, and in all that's good and true.

A swelled head is just a result of nature's frenzied efforts to fill a vacuum.

As for self-deceit, most people find it as essential for survival as air. You rarely indulge in it.

Though there are things beyond our understanding, for the most part we are the architects of our own unhappiness.

if you wanna be somebody be yourself dont try to be anybody your not

Es el ego quien nos engaña para que pensemos que tenemos razones para hacer lo que sea necesario con tal de imponernos sobre aquellos que percibimos como nuestros enemigos.

The guru is in you.

No matter where you go, there you are

I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.

You're a library of me.

Writing exists (for me) at the intersection of three precarious, uncertain elements: language, the world, the self. The first is never wholly mine; the second I can only ever know in a partial sense; the third is a malleable and improvised response to the previous two.

It's such a confidence trick, writing a novel. The main person you have to trick into confidence is yourself. This is hard to do alone.