Quotes About Self

It just means you are the sum total of your data. No man escapes that.

What is the self? Everything you are, without others, without friends or strangers or lovers or children or streets to walk or food to eat or mirrors in which to see yourself. But are you anyone without others?

That's what it all comes down to in the end. A person spends his life saying good-bye to other people. How does he say good-bye to himself?

Quel po' di senso di colpa che provavo dipendeva dall'immagine di Jennifer sola e umiliata, non dal banale tradimento di Meredith. Per Jennifer io rimanevo un enigma. Rifiutavo di concederle la minima percezione di me, e la ragione posso solo immaginarla: avevo un bisogno disperato di ogni minima briciola del mio ego per vincere la paura di svanire io stesso.

It's hard to be beautiful. You have an obligation to people. You almost become public property. You can lose yourself and get almost mentally disturbed on just the public nature of being beautiful. Don't think I haven't thought about it. You can get completely lost in that whole dumb mess. And anyway who's to say what's beautiful and what's ugly?

You've said good-by to everyone but yourself. How does a person say good-bye to himself? It's a juicy existential dilemma.

We are the sum total of our data, I told her, just as we are the sum total of our chemical impulses. I

The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever. The true life takes place when we're alone, thinking, feeling, lost in memory, dreamingly self-aware, the submicroscopic moments.

Nie mam cia?a. Jestem umys?em, ?wiadomo?ci?, samotny w wielkiej przestrzeni.

How can people live their whole lives without knowing the names of their own parts of the body?

look in the mirror and I don't know who I'm looking at," he said. "The face looking back at me doesn't seem to be mine. But then again why should it? Is the mirror a truly reflective surface? And is this the face that other people see? Or is it something or someone that I invent? Does the medication I'm taking release this second self?

If each of us is the center of his or her existence, Orest seemed intent on enlarging the center, making it everything. Is this what athletes do, occupy the self more fully? It's possible we envy them for a prowess that has little to do with sport. In building toward a danger, they escape it in some deeper sense, the dwell in some angelic scan, able to leap free of everyday dying.

If each of us is the center of his or her existence, Orest seemed intent on enlarging the center, making it everything. Is this what athletes do, occupy the self more fully? It's possible we envy them for a prowess that has little to do with sport. In building toward a danger, they escape it in some deeper sense, they dwell in some angelic scan, able to leap free of everyday dying.

You express your own divinity by being alive and by loving yourself and others.

Kona?no, ako ste svjesni toga da vas nitko drugi ne može usre?iti i da je sre?a posljedica ljubavi koja izvire iz vas, to je najuzvišenije majstorstvo Tolteka,majstorstvo u ljubavi.

Ne svi?a li nam se vlastita pri?a, možemo je promijeniti. Jer mi smo, na kraju krajeva, njezini autori.

Tanr? için kan?t aramay?n. Sadece olun, risk al?n ve yaÅŸam?n?zdan haz al?n. Önemli olan budur. Hay?r demek istediÄŸinizde hay?r deyin. Evet demek istediÄŸinizde evet deyin. Sizin kendiniz olmaya hakk?n?z var. Ancak yapabileceÄŸinizin en iyisini yapt???n?zda kendiniz olursunuz. En iyisini yapmad???n?zda, kendiniz olma hakk?n? elinizden al?yorsunuz.

The Truth is that you have no idea what you really are but you know what you are not

never figured out what sort of animal I was

You have to know how to defend yourself. People

Use your work to better yourself. You

The human body essentially recreates itself every six months. Nearly every cell of hair and skin and bone dies and another is directed to its former place. You are not who you were last November.

I don't trust people to accept who I am in process. I'm the kind of person who wants to present my most honest, authentic self to the world—so I hide backstage and rehearse honest and authentic lines until the curtain opens.

It makes me wonder how many people have damaged their own lives by mistaking enablement for grace?