Quotes About Self

I speak only one language, and it is not my own.

Ne büyük zafer olurdu. Ä°nsan sonunda herhangi bir baÅŸar? elde etmiÅŸ olurdu böylece; kendi y?k?m?n?.

Quel est donc cet autre à qui je suis plus attaché qu'à moi, puisqu'au sein le plus assenti de mon identité à moi-même, c'est lui qui m'agite ?

Unless we define happiness in a rather sad way, namely that it is to be like everyone else, which is what the autonomous ego could be resolved into - nobody, it must be said, knows what it is.

Mereu sfârÈ™im prin a deveni un personaj în propria noastr? poveste.

All scoundrels are based on this, to want to be...someone's big Other.

El proceso analítico es cuando el yo decide si quiere aquello que desea.

I identify myself in language, but only by losing myself in it like an object. What is realised in my history is not the past definite of what was, since it is no more, or even the present perfect of what has been in what I am, but the future anterior of what I shall have been for what I am in the process of becoming.

I am where I think not.

Man finds his home in a point situated in the Other beyond the image of which we are made and this place represents the absence where we are.

Our fate is shaped from within ourselves outward, never from without inward.

Two truths: the first of these is that joy does not come from outside, for whatever happens to us it is within. The second truth is that light does not come to us from without. Light is in us, even if we have no eyes.

It is easier to compare oneself, to establish social exchange as that swapmeet of glory and contempt where each person receives a superiority in exchange for the inferiority he confesses to.

Solo me siento vivo a partir del instante en que contemplo mi existencia.

Mon livre de chevet, c'est un revolver. Mi libro de cabecera es un revólver.

Men are so isolated, prisoners of their own wretched selves, that they can be unbelievably sociable.

But when it comes to the inner situation, there is only one ingredient: you. At least you must happen the way you want.

Your mind need not be controlled; your mind needs to be liberated.

18 When we utter the word 'spirituality', what we are saying is, "I want to become all-inclusive, or all-exclusive. I want to include everything as a part of myself, or I want to just exclude everything, including myself." These are two ways – either include everything or exclude everything. Either become infinite, or become zero; the in-between is an endless trap.

Mi problema sigue siendo el Ser, esa cosa difícil, a veces intuida, pero siempre inefable; mi problema sigue siendo Yo, pero no Yo el que habla sino Yo que calla, desligado, independiente, liberado de mí mismo. Sin ti, sin mí, sin ninguno de lo que somos; un Yo inmutable y permanente.

Yo me voy a otra parte. Y me llevo mi mano, que tanto escribe y habla.

I'll be all right," Drift whispered. She leaned forward and pulled Rook into a quick, tight hug before letting go. "So will you. But you're going to have to trust." "Trust what?" Rook asked, misery welling up inside her. Drift was asking the impossible. "I trust you. I trust Fox. Isn't that enough?" "No," Drift said. "You have to trust yourself and try to give this world a chance.

Who you are is a mystery no one can answer, not even you.

I only now understand why it is that people lie about their past, why they say they are one thing other than the thing they really are, why they invent a self that bears no resemblance to who they really are, why anyone would want to feel as if he or she belongs to nothing, comes from no one, just fell out of the sky, whole.