Quotes About Self

If I turn into another, dig me up from under what is covering the better me

I used to be human once. So I'm told. I don't remember it myself, but people who knew me when I was small say I walked on two feet, just like a human being...

ve ben kendimin kapa??n? aç?p, Ivan için kitab?n ilk sayfalar?n? ar?yorum, yüzümün gizemli görünmesini saÄŸl?yorum...

No descuido la escritura, sino a mí misma. Los otros saben dios lo sabe qué hacer con las palabras. Yo no soy mi asistente. ¿Debo aprisionar un pensamiento llevarlo a la iluminada celda de una frase?

But one day I will want to know it and from that day on I will stay behind and fall back into yesterday. But it's not tomorrow yet. Before yesterday and tomorrow arrive, I have to silence them inside me. It is today. I am here and today.

A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well." ? Frederick Douglass

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility. – Eleanor Roosevelt

It doesn't matter if anyone else ever sees my pictures or not. They are for me, part of who I am and how I express my interpretation of what I see in this world.

who I am, somehow that failed to be significant, at least in any way that matters.

I think I am a better ghost than I am a human being.

all in the flick of a moment during which conscious involvement attenuated and allowed the deeper self to shove upward the completed problem.

Apperception," as it is presently conceived, means "introspective self-consciousness," "the mind's perception of itself as a conscious agent," "a condition in which we are conscious of our own existence and consciousness of our own perceptions," "perception of the sum of things," and "the recognition of truths" [emphasis added].

In this condition of the most devastating humiliation, I still possessed the most precious of liberties, that no-one could take away from me: that of deciding who I wanted to be.

everyone else in the world

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

You were what you were and you are what you are. Fuck that regrets bullshit.

When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself

Today I trust my instinct, I trust myself. Finally.

The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.

What is the American fetish about highways? They want to get somewhere, LaBas offers. Because something is after them, Black Herman adds. But what is after them? They are after themselves. They call it destiny. Progress.

Feelings demand living space.

If she is afraid of mirrors she is afraid of herself.