Quotes About Self

People have a right to their lives,' she says softly.

As Anton Chekhov so memorably put it, 'Others made me a slave but I must squeeze the slave out of me drop by drop.

It's a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.

For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression.

If God has created us in His image, we have more than returned the compliment.

You got a voice in your head named Alan?

seeking self-inspiration, to action, seeking know-how, and seeking knowledge.

You and Psychiatry. (You and Psychiatry, Menninger and Leaf, Scribner's, New York, 1948)

The development of good character is a battle that you, I, and everyone must fight for himself. But victory can be ours.

Remember; no matter where you go, there you are.

We take almost all the decisive steps in our lives as a result of slight inner adjustments of which we are barely conscious.

All pity is self-pity.

when the ego disappears, so does power over language.

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

Again focus your attention on the can; then let the serve serve itself.

The foregoing has only one purpose: to encourage the reader to respect Self 2. This amazing instrument is what we have the effrontery to call "uncoordinated.

If I make the lashes dark And the eyes more bright And the lips more scarlet, Or ask if all be right From mirror after mirror, No vanity's displayed: I'm looking for the face I had Before the world was made.

The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.

Every man is himself a class; every hour carries its new challenge.

there is no truth Saving in thine own heart. -from "The Song of the Happy Shepherd

Fellow-wanderer, Could we but mix ourselves into a dream, Not in its image on the mirror!

I know now that revelation is from the self, but from that age-long memoried self, that shapes the elaborate shell of the mollusc and the child in the womb, that teaches the birds to make their nest; and that genius is a crisis that joins that buried self for certain moments to our trivial daily mind.

A writer must die every day he lives, be reborn, as it is said in the Burial Service, an incorruptible self, that self opposite of all that he has named 'himself'.

Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.