Quotes About Self

We can only go to the limits of ourselves. Anything more and we give too much away. Then we're not good for anyone.

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." She was referring to Jock, but her words made me think of other things, too. "Are you happy, Karen?" "Not yet. But I mean to be.

He talks about the gift of being lost in the woods. I've always found that comforting, somehow. That maybe you have to be truly lost before you can find yourself again.

How some victims don't have even a whisper of no inside them. Because they don't believe the life they have is theirs to save.

That's what terrible, sordid situations did to you, made you act crazily, against your own truths, against yourself.

i liked feeling strong and was uncomfortable knowing that had vanished whne he left. was my happiness so completely tied to him now that i could only feel like myself when he was near? i had no idea.

Perhaps Ernest's marriage meant, as I'd said, that there was no cliff to fling myself from. But what did that matter when love itself was an ocean, and you could drown in even a teacup of it?

Was my happiness so completely tied to him now that I could only feel like myself when he was near?

Maybe we are always all of our ages at once, like nesting matryoshka dolls?

Her behavior was obviously retaliatory. That's what terrible, sordid situations did to you, made you act crazily, against your own truths, against your self.

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." She

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?

as if whatever life she's had before now doesn't take up space or trouble her in the least.

To find one's way anywhere one has to find one's door, just like Alice, you see. You take too much of one thing and you get too big, then you take too much of another and you get too small. You've got to find your own doorway into things.

you can't really love other people well unless you are at home in your own soul. You will simply be too afraid.

You are what you are, until you decide to be different.

It's not how you look, it's how you feel in the dark

The most basic question of all cannot be answered: Who are you?

If you are not happy on the inside, there's nothing on the outside that will make you happy.

There is no hate without fear [...]. Hate is fear crystallized, fear objectified. We hate what threatens our selves, our dreams, our plans, our freedom, our place in the world, our place in the hearts of the people we love. We fear first. Then we hate.

If you want to become a saint, live to please others, if you want to become a god, live entirely to please yourself.

Sí, te preocupas de los sentimientos de todos, menos de los míos –afirmó Alexandr, con un tono mordaz. –No

We are not the person other people wish we were. We are who we decide to be.

When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.