Quotes About Self

to expand your awareness of your own healing energy and potent life spirit.

But women please note: with great power, comes great responsibility. A responsibility to yourself, a responsibility to the world, a responsibility to your world—and everything you let in it. This

If I become the man you want, I wouldn't be the man I am.

For a moment something struggles inside her. Then her mind empties and she surrenders. Fighting fate is too difficult. She must save herself to fight whatever fate throws up.

Tell me what you can't forget, and I'll tell you who you are." —Julie Buntin, Marlena

In a deep psychological sense, we have no self unless we have a secret. We grab for them whenever we begin losing ourselves in our social group or work or marriage. We reassert our identity as somebody apart.

chapter, however, the modern perspective is that brains enable minds, and that YOU is your vastly parallel and distributed brain without a central command center. There is no ghost in the machine, no secret stuff that is YOU. That YOU that you are so proud of is a story woven together by your interpreter module to account for as much of your behavior as it can incorporate, and it denies or rationalizes the rest.

We humans are nothing more than the sum of our memories.

we are nothing more than the sum of our memories and experiences

You know, we're each the hero of our own story and we perceive what's going on around us, and especially in a relationship, from the kind of viewpoint of, 'Well, this is my story, and I'm the hero of that, and I justify what I do around it.'

The only mystery that realy needs to be discovered is the one within us

This definition, which sounds like the opposite of Brahman being the whole universe, is actually identical to brahman being the whole universe, because—in this way of looking at it—everything in the phenomenal universe is an illusion, including your separate self.

Be, who you be.

I didn't ask to be saved

I am," I said. "I'm the problem.

That sounds so weird: "kill yourself." It makes it sound like you tried to murder someone, only that someone is you. But killing someone is wrong, and I don't think suicide is. It's my life, right? I should be able to end it if I want to. I don't think it's a sin.

The second type of uniquely human executive regulation is what we may call social self-regulation. In this case, the individual appropriates the perspectives or values of others to use as a standard in the self-regulatory process.

I think; therefore, I am above average.

He simply hoped that difficult decisions would make themselves.

The story of Trump was the story of how he tried to make himself a story.

Trump often spoke of himself in the third person. Trump did this. The Trumpster did that. So powerful was this persona, or role, that he seemed reluctant, or unable, to give it up in favor of being president—or presidential.

The president, while often a fabulist in his depiction of the world, was quite a literalist when it came to how he saw himself.

I quote others only in order to better express myself.

Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him.