Quotes About Self

Najteže se govori o onome što te se najviše ti?e.

Je li to mudrost, da ne o?ekujemo mnogo ni od sebe ni od drugih? Je li to gubitak ili dobitak, ako saznamo pravu vrijednost, svoju i tu?u? Gubitak je što je ta mjera sitna, a dobitak što ne tražimo više.

Niko nikome ne može natovariti toliko muke na vrat koliko ?ovjek sam sebi.

Ništa ?ovjeku nije važnije od svog mira i od sre?e koju sâm stvori. Zato je treba ?uvati, tu svoju sre?u, opkoliti je šan?evima, i nikome ne dozvoliti da je ugrozi.

Ljudi nisu glupi da ne bi vidjeli kako je teško pomiriti svijet i sebe, ni dovoljno pametni da to ne pokušavaju...

Sve je lijepo dok ništa ne tržimo, a prijatelje je opasno iskušavati. ?ovjek je vjeran samo sebi.

What I mean is how public people almost eagerly dehumanize themselves. They allow the markings of region, family, class, individual character, and, generally, personhood that they once possessed to be leached away. At the same time, they construct a new public self that often does terrible damage to what remains of the genuine person.

The child who was happy with herself meant the parents had won the jackpot.

The mind plays tricks on itself in order to stay in one piece.

To be anorexic...she thought, amounted to wanting to shed yourself of some of the imperfect mosaic of pieces that made you who you were. She could understand that now for, maybe underneath that desquamated self you would locate a new version.

Sometimes it's easier to tell ourselves a story.

Another spell had been thrust upon her so long ago...She hadn't been able to see it but it was real. Otherwise why would you rise up from your enclosed and well-defended self and go be with that other person? Why would you open your life, the most secret entries into yourself, to someone you didn't really know? Who would do that unless she had to?

Your personal history of pain, by the time you reached the age of forty, was supposedto have been folded thoroughly into the batter of the self, so that you barely needed to acknowledge it anymore.

My job does not define me.

There were moments when you idly glanced into the toilet or into a tissue after you'd used it, and suddenly remembered that this, this was what you carried around inside you all the time. This was what was always waiting to be let out.

How you could have these enormous dreams that never get met. How without knowing it you could just make yourself

know you have other things to think about, other people who want your time, which I know you probably have to dole out really, really carefully, preserving yourself. Self-preservation is as important as generosity.

I am having a crisis, she thought. I suddenly feel a new fragile sense of myself in this world and it's unbearable.

This is my body, and I can make it do things. I can make it spin, flip, fly.

Because the bad things you do become part of you, literally. This is no metaphor. They become part of you on a cellular level, in the blood.

My mom always says, you don't have a self until you have a secret.

That's your shadow, my mom told me once. You need it more than you think.

We are never deceived," she says, her voice deep and ringing. "We deceive ourselves.

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