Quotes About Self

Man creates what he is.

the courage to accept oneself as accepted in spite of being unacceptable…. This is the genuine meaning of the Pauline-Lutheran doctrine of 'justification by faith

It is the expression of the anxiety of meaninglessness and of the attempt to take this anxiety into the courage to be as oneself. (139)

Self-affirmation, for Tillich, is the paradox of "participation in something which transcends the self" (165).

Man is the question he asks about himself, before any question has been formulated. It is, therefore, not surprising that the basic questions were formulated very early in the history of mankind.

Spiritual self-affirmation occurs in every moment in which man lives creatively in the various spheres of meaning.

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

Neurosis is the way of avoiding nonbeing by avoiding being

Sometimes I think and other times I am.

You have made yourself an island of time, you are a time that has become detached from that vast Time in which your indefinite duration has the subsistence and eternity of a smoke-ring.

Lo más profundo del hombre es la piel.

Every ironist has in mind a pretentious reader, mirror of himself.

Each of them, all unknowing, fairly gives its due to each chance of life, to each germ of death within itself.

Sentimentul de a fi tot si evidenta de a nu fi nimic.

Moje telo? mi je strano kao bilo koji drugi predmet - (ako ne i mnogo više -) a bliskije mi je, više prvotnije i prvobitnije JA od svake misli.

La conscience règne mais ne gouverne pas.

Consciousness reigns but doesn't govern.

Quem é mais estranho a si do que aquele que se sente a ver o que vê?

Anyone who interprets or defines your rights controls your destiny.

Experience is what you have after you've forgotten who you are.

Imagination is conjunctive and unifying; the sour, habitual wars of the self are disjunctive and separating. When I begin a story at my desk, the window to my back, the path is not there. As I start to walk, I make the path.

She was thinking of the advantages she would have if only she were someone else.

Ironic," Ricardo said. "That you must become a monster to keep from going mad.

We're all of us afraid of many things, but if you make yourself smaller or let your fear confine you, then you really aren't your own person at all—are you? The real question is whether or not you will risk what it takes to be happy.