Quotes About Self

Id me didn't have to be concerned with long-term consequences. He was my instinctive, primitive self, driven by my most primal impulses. I wondered, briefly, if 'id' and 'idiot' came from the same root.

Only the young think being called old is an insult," I said, still smiling. "I am what I am, regardless of what anyone calls it. No one can change it, regardless of what anyone calls it. And it mostly means that nothing has managed to kill me yet.

You've got it backward, Harry," he said. "You are a soul. You have a body.

We're all the hero of our own story.

What had changed things? What had made the difference? She had. All by herself.

Children are a precious gift, but they belong to no one but themselves.

The best magic comes from the inside.

You may pretend you are like them. But you are not.

Anything with that much power and that little control, that utter lack of concern for anything but self is evil in the most effective sense of the word.

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

All it would cost me was my soul. And no, I'm not talking about anything magical or metaphysical. I'm talking about the core of my identity, about what makes Harry Dresden who and what he is. If I lost those things, the things that define me, then what would be left?

But it also meant that I had me on my side. And I liked the way that felt.

Can't just tell a soul it is free, Tavar. Freedom must be done for oneself. Important that the slaves created their own freedom.

Don't eat fruits or nuts. You are what you eat.

A little ego goes nowhere.

How can I be lost when I've never been found?

You are not a terrible person. But the world is a terrible, HORRIBLE place. What you've got to do is take all that rage and all that hatred that's inside of you and turn it around. You've got to stop trying to destroy yourself. Turn that rage outward, go out and try to destroy the WORLD instead.

I can make the earth stop in its tracks. I made the blue cars go away. I can make myself invisible or small. I can become gigantic & reach the farthest things. I can change the course of nature. I can place myself anywhere in space or time. I can summon the dead. I can perceive events on other worlds, in my deepest inner mind, & in the minds of others. I can I am

Once you make peace with authority you become an authority

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade for a role, you give up your ability to feel and in exchange put up a mask

No one thought up being. He who thinks he has, step forward.

He had to hate them, to move the smothering shroud of hatred from himself to them. He closed the door of his room behind him, and almost snatched the drink from under the bed.

I think everybody should believe in himself. I suppose, in a way, that's also believing in God. If there is a God and He made you, then believing in yourself is also believing in Him. Once you carry God inside yourself, then you're part of Him.

Stay groovy/To keep the axis turning so that love follows music as the night the day/You hypnotize people to where they go right back to their natural state,like in childhood when you get natural highs.And when they come down off,they see clearer,feel different things.It's all spiritual/The idea is to get your own self together/What you do is your religion ?Starting at Zero?