Quotes About Self

Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.

I myself am more divine than any I see.

A culture focused on individual freedom can only result in narcissism, polarization, conflict, estrangement, and loneliness. What is the meaning of life when it's all about me?

We can't change this world, but we can change ourselves so that we can be of service to this world.

Will you still love me when I'm a monster?

Il destino è come il cuore: è dentro di noi fin dal primo istante, perciò è inutile cercare di cambiarlo.

I'm unique just like everyone else

Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always 20 times better.

Many people go into relationships because they fall in love with the essence of a person, only to find out that the person's narcissistic wounded self is in charge most of the time.

I am not just what I remember. I am also what I dream.

The normal symbiotic phase marks the all-important phylogenetic capacity of the human being to invest the mother within a vague dual unity that forms the primal soil from which all subsequent human relationships form. The separation-individuation phase is characterized by a steady increase in awareness of the separateness of the self and the "other" which coincides with the origins of a sense of self, of true object relationship, and of awareness of a reality in the outside world.

Hate them more than you hate yourself, and you'll stay free!

A smile becomes you or perhaps you become you when you smile.

Trust in your willingness to learn, grow, and evolve. Trust in your gut instincts. When you trust yourself, you can take risks and get out of your comfort zone. Trust yourself, and you will be the lead in your own life.

I catch myself thinking that I'm not physically visible, that whoever I'm talking to is responding to my personality, not my person.

mingled love and shame for our people, a mingled love and terror of white culture. And then (as if the result of these others), despair and a furious will to extinguish the self. My people's enemies have done this to me. But so have my own loved ones. My enemies took too much. My loved ones asked too much.

Still, his question, "If there is only one model of individuation, can there be true individuality?

Take your work seriously, but never yourself.

The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.

The most important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative, and the second disastrous.

Men were strictly for pleasure and for experimenting with versions of the self.

He had reached that moment in life, different for each one of us, when a man abandonds himself to his demon or to his genius, following a mysterious law which bids him either to destroy or outdo himself.

I want you to beat down the me in me that can't coexist with me.

You have the sense that you're the one making the world go round. Everyone speaks in fragments, but for an instant those fragments are a catalyst, my self is erased and it brings on a wave of pure ecstasy, that instant in the drug.