Quotes About Self

As theologian N. T. Wright points out, trees behave as trees, rocks as rocks and the seas as the seas, but "Only humans, it seems, have the capacity to live as something other than what they are.

We are never more completely ourselves than when we make that decision to trust in God.

I have frantically played the clown in order to distangle myself from these painful relationships, only to wear myself out as a result.

Whenever I let the slightest thing make me forget myself, I can't help but be disappointed

The incomprehensibility of society is the incomprehensibility of the individual. The ocean is not society; it is the individual.

Each day I deceived myself, unlike you who could never deceive yourself. Anxiety was trapped in the depths of my heart, like a formation of black clouds I could not break free of.

I have frantically played the clown in order to disentangle myself from these painful relationships, only to wear myself out as a result.

The incomprehensibility of society is the incomprehensibility of the individual. The ocean is not society; it is individual.

If all you've got is just enough talent to get along, sooner or later you'll betray yourself.

On the other hand, I was equally afraid that they might not recognize my true self when they saw it, but imagine that it was just some new twist to my clowning-occasion for additional snickers.

I wanted to write only what I wanted to write.

A partir de entonces entendí de que la llamada sociedad era el individuo. Y con esta idea, fui capaz de comportarme más de acuerdo con mi propia voluntad.

É que os covardes temem até mesmo a felicidade. Machucam-se com algodão. Podem se ferir com a própria felicidade.

Ces expressions: « Être aimé », « être adoré », étaient dans mon cas absolument impropres ; « un être dont on s'occupe » eût été beaucoup plus approprié à moi.

Znowu chcia?em umrze?. Mo?ecie to nazwa? egzaltacj?. By?em zapatrzony w siebie. Postrzega?em ?ycie ludzkie jako spektakl. A w?a?ciwie spektakl by? dla mnie ?yciem.

her halde, bir ?eyden emin olunabilir:?nsan, ya?amak için rol yapmak zorunda.

Every narcissist is a hero and a legend in his own mind.

Just because you're changing doesn't mean you're not in control of the person you become.

There's always something that you sacrifice with each of your choices. When you choose you and your dreams, and you commit to them no matter what, you sacrifice the excuses, the stories, the old limiting beliefs; providing a rich ground of fertile soil for the seeds of your dreams to germinate.

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what world calls a romance

For Zen, man is the goal; man is the end unto himself. God is not something above humanity, God is something hidden within humanity. Man is carrying God in himself as a potentiality.

Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.

Nature has come to a point where now, unless you take individual responsibility, you cannot grow.