Quotes About Self

Don't they say that all the people in your dreams are really yourself?

In vain does the disguised traveller inwardly rebel against the influences and impressions which are wearing away his real self. The impressions of the past lose more and more their hold on him until they fade away, leaving the traveller hopelessly struggling in the toils of his own fiction, and the rôle he had assumed soon becomes second nature with him.

If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, then what am I? And if not now, when?" (Pirkei Avot 1:14)

She didn't need to be someone else. She needed to use her power to make the world a better place.

Maybe it will be something exclusively for me, to remind myself that believing in ridiculous things isn't always so bad.

The ego is a palpable body part in an attorney, perhaps the most prominent body part.

par quelle cécité les hommes s'empêchent-ils de vivre leur vérité?

They offered me freedom as a gift. She did. Who told her she had it to offer? I know the freedom you are talking about. I had that freedom the moment I was born. When these people say you belong to me, I own you, it is like the passing of the rain, or the setting of the sun at the end of the day.

The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words. Looking at certain illuminated corners of or cracks within the mirror, the author can see fragments of an objective reality that comprise the physical universe, social communities, political dynamics, and other facets of human existence. Looking in certain other corners of the same mirror, he or she may experience glimpses of a True Self sheltered deftly behind a mask of public proprieties.

Your worst pessimist is, after all, an optimist with regard to himself.

De mens is geroepen in zijn doen zijn eigen wezen af te spiegelen. Hij zelf is een wereld in het klein, maar het ganse heelal vindt hij in zijn boezem terug. Niet het grote, het onbegrensde, het onbereikbare is daarom zijn taak, maar het lokale, het afgeperkte, het kleine, doch dat binnen zijn bepaalde afmetingen toch altijd het grote weerkaatst.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious." "God will judge us by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don't think God cares what doctrine we embrace.

All possibilities resided within me, and they required me to be here. If I left, what would be left of me?

Your "Gloria" lives within you.

Patience be damned. Let them suffer their distorted worldview. Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole.

I imagine the insides of myself sometimes-- part female, part male, part terrible dragon.

What is it about noticing beauty that brings you out of yourself and returns you to yourself?

I am beautiful. I am full of love. I am dying.

Who you are and what you believe in is your real home, the only home no one can take from you, the only home that will last.

He wanted to break me, the me I'd made, the me I'd needed to make, my need, mine, my whole life since I could remember. I didn't want to hear him that night. When I was ready to change I'd change. When life opens up before you, when you don't really know death ... it's easy to promise yourself change. Keeping the lines hard, the parts of me separate, was what I knew, how I lived.

Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. Women choose Alice [in Wonderland] because every woman sees herself as the only reasonable creature among crazy people who think they are disinherited monarchs.

Who you are should be a question of what you value, not what you believe.