Quotes About Self

This is your life. You are responsible for it. You will not live forever. Don't wait.

But why? Why do you care about our class's history?" "I just do. Besides, I need something to put on my art-school applications besides 'Locks self in room and draws all day.' Even art schools won't take a psychopath.

That's the biggest problem with personas. A false self can never rest. It looks like a real person, but a persona is actually just a hologram, a projected image, and it requires constant energy to keep that image up. A persona is afraid to go to sleep, because to sleep is to die.

Harder than waking from a nightmare was trying to wake herself into one.

He did not feel guilty. He did not feel. The rock was a solidification of his feeling, his conscience, his sense of reality, his self-knowledge.

Furthermore, having lost faith in himself, he thought it his duty to undermine the nation's faith in itself.

The greater a child's terror, and the earlier it is experienced, the harder it becomes to develop a strong and healthy sense of self.

When we learn how to be in an intimate relationship without abandoning our sense of self, when we learn how to be kind without being self-sacrificing, when we learn how to cooperate with others without betraying our standards and convictions, we are practicing self-assertiveness.

No man, for any considerable time, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool the truest heroism is to resist the doubt and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool the truest heroism is, to resist the doubt and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when to be obeyed.

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart What jailer so inexorable as one's self

It's okay...for me to be here...it's okay. Even if I'm like this.

If it were that simple...to change yourself completely...no one would suffer. But even so...this is hope. Even if it was just a tiny bit...I definitely felt it.

That 'me' is becoming a memory, too.

Just be yourself and you'll be fine

I suppose I'm the one responsible for destroying myself.

And what if, in order to keep on living, I have to continue to accept myself?

But it did seem that the thing we are most proud of and the thing we are most ashamed of are but the front and back of the same coin.

As George MacDonald wisely wrote, "The one principle of hell is, I am my own!" 4 Fierce pride usually protects this wrong perception.

Giving up on God and on oneself constitutes simultaneous surrender to the natural man.

Consider what the word "augmentation" means. The idea is that you augment something already existing. Many who do it destroy that essential something in the process – become more their additions than themselves. It is part of the haiman ethos to retain that humanity until such a time as it becomes possible to truly extend self. They call themselves haimans but know that until that becomes possible they are not truly post-human.

The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation. You are not discovering yourself, but creating yourself anew. Seek therefore, not to find out Who You Are, but seek to determine Who You Want to Be.