Quotes About Self

The only person who suffers, when you squirrel alway all that hate, is you.

when they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see.

I'm the princess in an ivory tower, except every brick is made of history, and I built this prison myself.

Imagine a world that seemed so much bigger than you. Imagine waking up one morning and finding a piece of yourself you didn't even know existed.

But Katie knew it was a sin, had known from the moment she made the decision to lie with Adam. However, the transgression wasn't making love without the sanction of marriage. It was that for the first time in her life, Katie had put herself first. Put her own wants and needs above everything and everyone else.

Being gay or straight," says Elizabeth, "is about who you want to go to bed with. Being trans—or cis—is about who you want to go to bed as.

She wondered if this was true of every parent: if, prior to having children, they all used to be someone else.

I drew it over my skin like a violins bow, No one would ever hear the song of my shame.

It is amazing, what you can make yourself believe, when you have to, Josef says. If you keep telling yourself you are a certain kind of person, eventually you will become that person.

We all have stories we tell ourselves, until we believe them to be true.

These days her entire life was about making people believe she was someone she wasn't anymore.

When you're pregnant, you can think of nothing but having your own body to yourself again; yet after giving birth you realize that the biggest part of you is now somehow external...

Maybe knowing where you belong is not equal to knowing who you are.

Because the more you changed, the less of you there was.

Imagine waking up one morning and finding a piece of yourself you didn't even know existed.

Being a superhero is hard work. You have to save the world. But going to school is even harder. You have to save yourself.

Work therefore is the paramount key to discovering yourself.

My students should be afraid: choosing what kind of work you'll do to a great extent means choosing who you'll be.

An actor's a guy who if you ain't talking about him ain't listening.

Neither woman nor man lives by work or love alone.... The human self defines itself and grows through love and work: All psychology before and after Freud boils down to that.

It's a werewolf movie with Christina Ricci, and it was a chance to work with some good people. But playing yourself is always fairly risky because you gotta watch how you goof on yourself.

If I were you I'd promise to live life for all it's worth, take all you've been given and leave your mark upon this Earth. Trust your heart to show you everything you need...and if you were you, I'd fall in love with me.

Every New Year people get you some presents but your best present you get never changes: Your own existence! It is also your best present to others!

Forgetting the past and focusing on you.