Quotes About Self

Choice is a determinant in personal development ... by my free acts I am making myself.

Freely the subject makes himself what he is, never in this life is the making finished, always it is in process, always it is a precarious achievement that can slip and fall and shatter.

Every man is in some sort a failure to himself. No one ever reaches the heights to which he aspires.

Happiness isn't something that depends on our surroundings, Corrie. It's something we make inside ourselves.

The only enemy to fear is the enemy within, the demon that speaks in your own voice, the assassin in the mirror.

I am my own heir.

Tried to be someone I knew that I wasn't I thought I could make myself happy with you

My poetry is a game. My life is a game. But I am not a game.

This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.

We all lie. We all guard secrets—sometimes terrible ones—a side to us so dark, so shameful, that we quickly avert our own eyes from the shadow we might glimpse in the mirror. Instead we lock our dark halves deep in the basement of our souls. And on the surface of our lives, we work industriously to shape the public story of our selves . . .

Love and pride and a painful protective instinct crunch through her chest. Matthew and Phoebe are Lily's raison d'être. She knows why she wanted kids so badly. Having children is a hopeful, redemptive act. It's not only a literal reinvention of oneself, it's a way to reshape the idea of one's self.

Phoebe is a manga fan. She's so enamored with manga and anime and the culture around them that she's started to teach herself Japanese and plans to take it as a course next year.

Memories defined a person. Without autobiographical memory, the face in the mirror was a stranger's. One became an alien, flailing around in a constant, unrelenting present with no touchstones to guide one into the future and out of the past.

Lily's fight with Phoebe felt like a confrontation with her own inner twelve-year-old self, and perhaps that's why she gets so irrationally angry with her daughter. Like Paisley, Lily has her own inner bad girl. Like Paisley's, Lily's inner devil is probably also a tween betwixt girlhood and adulthood,

No its you," she said. How far away her voice sounded, as though it had traveled to London already, ahead of her. "Your ducal self assurance. Everything will give way to you. Even Satan's own storm." "You are definitely improving," he said. "Full mocking sentences.

There is no such thing as a perfect name.

Well that's because I wasn't always like this.' Henrietta paused, examining her knuckles. 'I built a wall around myself.

finally she feels free - not perfect, not problem free, just free

You came here a fighter, Maddie. Maybe you'd lost a round or two, but you were on your feet. You want to stay in Lucky Harbor? Fight for it. You want a relationship with your sisters? Fight for it. What about you? What about a relationship with you? He pulled back to look into her face as if memorizing her features. His voice, when he spoke, was low and gravelly with emotion. I'm already yours. Always have been. All you have to do is step into the ring.

I don't have a nervous system, I am a nervous system...

You're as happy as you make up your mind to be.

lasting joy is not a matter of what's happening around you, but inside you.

Magic comes from what is inside you. It is a part of you. You can't weave together a spell that you don't beleive in.

No matter where you go, there you are. [- Uriel to Harry Dresden]