Quotes About Self

Everybody lives in their own Jamaica and damn if that was ever going to be mine.

What is evil anyway, a sad soul infected with devils who take his will, or a man thinking that of all his mother's children he loves himself the best?

What you looking at is the only way I don't feel like being me is labor, like I holding myself together all the time.

Envy is what they have for us because we have one power no god can ever have, and that is the power to surprise oneself.

Un hombre puede cambiar su apariencia y su nombre, pero no puede cambiar su interior.

In no case should we abandon responsibility for our own choice-making or give someone else's conception of what we are more weight than our own sense of self.

The Mask Always a mask Held in the slim hand whitely Always she had a mask before her face— Truly the wrist Holding it lightly Fitted the task: Sometimes however Was there a shiver, Fingertip quiver, Ever so slightly— Holding the mask? For years and years and years I wondered But dared not ask And then— I blundered, Looked behind the mask, To find Nothing— She had no face. She had become Merely a hand Holding a mask With grace. —Author unknown

O mundo em que vivemos é aquilo que fazemos dele. Se hoje é impiedoso, foi porque nossas atitudes o tornaram assim. Se mudarmos a nós mesmos, poderemos mudar o mundo, e essa mudança começará por nossa linguagem e nossos métodos de comunicação.

What is the life that is going on in me at this moment?

Everyone clings to their history with a vengeance because it anchors their identity.

The self is seen as a psychological fiction, which means that its relationships are essentially fiction.

People who believe they can succeed see opportunities where others see threats. They're not afraid of uncertainty or ambiguity. They embrace it. They want to take greater risks and achieve greater returns. Given the choice, they will always bet on themselves.

The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers.

In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.

Who are we without our memories?

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Man blames fate for other accidents but feels personally responsible for a hole in one.

We might say that there can be pity in its full-fledged form only where there is also mercy for self: for the self engulfed by a sense of its own utter blackness can never win through to a sufficient recognition of the sorrows of the other as other.

We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.

We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.

Almost everyone who feels stymied, aimless, directionless is carrying an unresolved emotional wound. A lack of enthusiasm for life is always a sign that the deep self is hurt. Every person's essential self is pure, productive energy, and yours will return and send you into a fulfilling life almost automatically if your psyche is in good repair.

I never know what to say to that. I am actually alone in my head, and that's where 90 plus percent of my problems are.

It's not a baby, it's a copy of me, made with code." Amena folded her arms and looked intensely skeptical. "That you and ART made together, with code. Code which both of you are also made out of.

I never know what to say to that. I am actually alone in my head, and that's where 90 plus percent of my problems are.