Quotes About Self

I hide myself within my flower, That wearing on your breast, You, unsuspecting, wear me too — And angels know the rest.

My Life had stood-- a Loaded Gun

How dreary—to be—Somebody!

We meet no Stranger but Ourself.

I am Nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too?

i mean, heather said, our bodies are just these things that we float around in. it's not like they belong to anyone

You can only control your own actions. Not other people's reactions.

Everyone has issues. And at the end of the day...you are who you are.

It occurred to me that few things tell the story of a woman's life like her closet

grocery lists. That was back when I thought my

Change for your own sake, if you must, not for what you imagine another will ask of you.

Maybe I'm a human, but I'm a me-and-Ma as well.

Ma's still nodding. You're the one who matters, though. Just you. I shake my head till it's wobbling because there's no just me.

It's weird to have something that's mine-not-Ma's. Everything else is both of ours. I guess my body is mine and the ideas that happen in my head. But my cells are made out of her cells so I'm kind of hers.

No, I mean everything feels different, but it's because I'm different.

My names were hand-me-downs too: girl, the creature, or, most often, you there.

It's you that matters though, just you.

You, she thought. Every flawed, scrawny

The human mind needs boundaries. Without them it would fall in on itself, like a crushed honeycomb.

It came to Daffy then, how easily the worst in oneself could rise up and strike a blow. How even the most enlightened man had little power over his own darkness.

And if you don't know who you are, or if your real self has drifted away from you with the undertow, madness at least gives you an identity.

Love is it's own protection.

Le patriotisme […] est une superstition créée artificiellement et entretenue par tout un réseau de mensonges et de faussetés ; une superstition qui enlève à l'homme tout respect pour lui-même et toute dignité, et accroît son arrogance et son mépris. En effet, mépris, arrogance et égoïsme sont les trois éléments fondamentaux du patriotisme.

Love needs to protection; it is its own protection.