Quotes About Self

They can tell you everything you're not but they can't make you believe it.- only you can do that.

The fox cannot change her nature and I cannot change mine.

Los lobos del bosque tienen dientes afilados y largas zarpas, pero es el lobo de tu interior el que acabara por destrozarte.

Humans are good at denial. Especially when it comes to me.

Believe that you can make your way. Or don't. Either way, you are right. Every war is different, yet each battle is the same. The enemy is only a distraction. The thing you are fighting against, always, is yourself.

Life's all about the revolution, isn't it? The one inside, I mean. You can't change history. You can't change the world. All you can ever change is yourself.

and the question is, which one is really "you

our familiar features rinsed in weird adulthood.

He liked the thought that his own power would one day be refined into translucence, with no memory of the blood and earth that had generated it.

Poets claim that we recapture for a moment the self that we were long ago when we enter some house or garden in which we used to live in our youth. But these are most hazardous pilgrimages, which end as often in disappointment as in success. It is in ourselves that we should rather seek to find those fixed places, contemporaneous with different years.

And it was only as he rose from the bed, his body illuminated by the colored lights of the city, that I caught the glint of calculation behind his eyes, a cold, blank set to his face. His shadow self, and not a nice one.

Why did people have to pretend to be what they already were?

Consciousness is like the cosmos multiplied by the number of people alive in the world (assuming that consciousness dies when we do, and it may not) because each of our minds is a cosmos of its own: unknowable, even to ourselves.

If he couldn't search or retrieve or view his own past, then it wasn't really his. It was lost.

Anna liked Bascombe, which was partly to say that she liked herself in his company.

In moments, I clutched at the notion of some larger "me" that could contain and justify my contradictory behavior, but more often I simply felt like the scene of two irreconcilable visions, two different people, one unerringly loyal and faithful, the other treacherous and greedy.

At every waking moment now, I was plagued by the thought that I was living a lie.

Barbara looked alarmed. "You mean you could have decided to be anybody?" "Not anybody, but the person I became. I think we are who we are because consciously, or unconsciously, we choose ourselves.

And at every moment as I lived my life, I countered this awareness with an exasperated companion thought, namely, Don't be an idiot. You're not a girl. Get over it. But I never got over it.

Drug addiction and alcoholism, depression and anxiety, accidental pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease. These conditions are believed to share a common etiology, the failure of virtue. Whatever their diagnosis, all Wellways patients have this in common: their troubles are seen to be, in part or in full, their own goddam fault.

No aspect of personality can ever be changed through experience points.

Will you show me what you really look like? You don't sparkle, do you?

How am I chang'd! Alas, how am I grown A frightful spectre to myself unknown! For

but the truth is that it is only in knowing who you are at your core and staying true to yourself that you can possibly see the difference between passion and real love.