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Quotes About Self

You can't wash away overnight several years of clockwork routine and constant disassembling of self.
~ Albertine Sarrazin
He had a ponytail. But this was not a regular ponytail from the Sixties, not a ponytail for show or for fashion. It was more. It was a personal ponytail, something more defining and lasting. A personal thing is different, and all the books and all the magazines in the world can't tell you what that is.
~ Alberto Alvaro Ríos
The curious measure, of course, is that we fail to recognize the most obvious notion in all of this: that we ourselves are the best magicians we know. What our bodies do, what our minds accomplish, and the context we can give to things, how we make it all fit together, this is something.
~ Alberto Alvaro Ríos
I'm one of my sensations.
~ Alberto Caeiro
Even so, I'm somebody. I'm the Discoverer of Nature. I'm the Argonaut of true sensations. I bring a new Universe to the Universe Because I bring the Universe to itself.
~ Alberto Caeiro
Quem ama é diferente de quem é. É a mesma pessoa sem ninguém
~ Alberto Caeiro
Digo de mim 'sou eu'. E não digo mais nada. Que mais há a dizer?
~ Alberto Caeiro
Lo literario de viajar es que uno después recuerda algo parecido a un cuento o una novela donde el protagonosta es uno mismo.
~ Alberto Fuguet
Uno tiene una vida incluso cuando no tiene vida.
~ Alberto Fuguet
No sabes lo que cansa nunca dejar de pensar en uno.
~ Alberto Fuguet
Gli uomini confondono ciò che ha bisogno di uno scopo per giustificare se stesso, con il lirismo che non ha bisogno di uno scopo, perché è di là da ogni scopo;..
~ Alberto Savinio
The True Self quietly observes the playground where thoughts take form, where games are played, and the gunas obeyed. These are the laws of light, activity, and inertia … of inspiration, action, and obstacles. The gunas are those things that can be known. Your mind ponders all their qualities, mistaking these for reality, for they gave birth to the mind. But the Self remains unmoved by the noise in the playground.
~ Alberto Villoldo
soul retrievals to recover parts of myself I had lost to trauma,
~ Alberto Villoldo
Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.
~ Aldous Huxley
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
~ Aldous Huxley
I am I, and I wish I weren't.
~ Aldous Huxley
I like being myself. Myself and nasty.
~ Aldous Huxley
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
~ Aldous Huxley
I've often thought that there isn't any "I" at all; that we are simply the means of expression of something else; that when we think we are ourselves, we are simply the victims of a delusion.
~ Aleister Crowley
Every man and every woman is a star.
~ Aleister Crowley
Happiness lies within one's self, and the way to dig it out is cocaine.
~ Aleister Crowley
escribes poemas porque necesitas un lugar en donde sea lo que no es
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
porque yo no pedí nacer en forma de signo de interrogación
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
La miopía exalta la individualidad. Verme a mí perfectamente y a los otros como pobres seres borrosos.
~ Alejandra Pizarnik