Quotes About Self

Damaged men are ever the most dangerous, to themselves and others. We stand against them at our peril.

Wer sich um die Wahrheit seines eigenen Lebens betrügt, betrügt sich gewiß auch um die Wahrheit Gottes.

Die eigenen Wege führen im Kreise immer zu uns selbst zurück. Aber wenn Gott unsere Wege leitet, dann führen sie zu ihm. Gott leitet uns durch Glück und Unglück – immer nur zu Gott. Daran erkennen wir Gottes Wege.

Man is never truly wise until he has fathomed the riddle of his own existence

I saw my Lord with the eye of the heart I asked, 'Who are You?' He replied, 'You'.

Ana el haq! Io sono la verità!

I am a human being; I am a woman; I am a black woman; I am an African. Once I was free; then I was captured and became a slave; but inside me, I have never been a slave; even today, inside me, here, and here, I am still a free woman.

Debemos defender a los ídolos que creamos, para defendernos a nosotros mismos, para no desesperarnos

Es verdad que siempre he tenido miedo de que la gente no me quisese tal y como yo soy, ese es mi temor más grande, pero a lo mejor faltaba la clave, el por qué.

the mention of age is only a reference point in the observation of the self.

the expression "beyond age" is meant simply to apply to the multiplicity of times present in each of us at every instant

We no longer have a simple relationship with our own bodies, with ourselves.

Witness the diversity of an unpredictable self that seems to repeat and reproduce itself exactly but that can also take me by surprise, outstrip and escape me.

When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own.

So often, the issues that we are so quick to defend or take offense at too readily are indicative of either a wounded or inflated ego.

Write like yourself, only more so.

You have two lives in you, Alice. The one you know, and another one. One that has been waiting for you for a very long time. They have nothing in common, apart from you.

We're harsh judges on the bad behavior of others, but lawyers for our own.

It's easy to spot the howling, threatening drunk, but a mugger who announces himself with "excuse me" is far more dangerous and harder to spot.

I need to complicate everything to protect myself from success and to remain complicated and overwhelmed. I

I need to complicate everything to protect myself from success and to remain complicated and overwhelmed.

As a child, at the age when others promise to be Chateaubriand or nothing, I had written that I would be myself or nothing. I had certainly not foreseen that one day I would find myself in the position of being both myself and nothing. 65

La moralité n'est bien souvent qu'une affaire d'éclairage et tu es le gardien de ton propre phare. [in Éléments pour une éthique]

A book is the product of a different self from the self we manifest in our habits, in our social life, in our vices.