Quotes About Self

The you that you want to be is always opposite to the you that you truly are.

To Be who one is, is the greatest Be of All.

To become nothing is much more difficult than to become something.

Trying not to lose myself within this mission was and is and always will be the most difficult of balances.

Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence.

I am son of man and woman, so they tell me. That astounds me . . . I thought myself more!

If I exist, I am not another

In the middle as in the beginning of life, angels resemble themselves: how long it has been since I ceased to resemble myself!

?nsan der: "Okyanustan daha zekiyim ben." Olas?d?r; dahas? oldukça da do?rudur; ama onun okyanusta yaratt??? ürküntüden daha ço?unu okyanus onda uyand?r?r: Kan?tlanmas? gereksiz bir ?ey.

At the end of it all, what flashes before our eyes won't be all the things we did that were bigger than ourselves; they'll be all the moments when we made a difference by being true to ourselves.

I didn't run for student council president. I don't see myself in any way in elected office. I love policy. I'm not particularly fond of politics.

When you see a worthy person, endeavor to emulate him. When you see an unworthy person, then examine your inner self.

Respect yourself and others will respect you.

I am not you and all my choices have already been made, good and bad.

There was no destiny in life, nothing beyond what a man could take and hold for himself.

As Ram Dass puts it, "The ego is a tiny room. But the soul can merge into the One.

One is least sure of one's self, sometimes, when one is most positive.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

But Alberta sat there wretchedly. God knows who put the words into her mouth. They were not her own. They were foreign to her, stupid words behind which she hid herself. Her own never saw the light of day, they died unborn or withered on her tongue and were born distorted. She was disabled, she was without the use of speech, she would die of muteness.

No doubt the female self and the male self can be as useful as any other social identity in the right circumstances. But flexible, context-sensitive, and useful is not the same as "hardwired".

It's funny I'm in some ways hopelessly masculine, but I don't fish, I don't hunt, I'm not that into sports. I can't fix a car. I think it's my point of view and the way I see the world.

Toda sociedad es un sistema de interpretación del mundo (...) Su propia identidad no es otra cosa que ese "sistema de interpretación", ese mundo que ella crea. Y esa es la razón por la cual la sociedad percibe como un peligro mortal todo ataque contra ese sistema de interpretación; lo persigue como un ataque contra su identidad, contra sí misma

Happiness isn't something that depends on our surroundings…it's something we make inside ourselves.

It's taken me years of practice to learn how to act natural.