Quotes About Self

I knew Donald Fagan at Bard. He was wildly gifted. He gave me a phone number which I never used and I guess I lost! Philosophically it's an interesting song; I mean I think his 'number' is a cipher for the self.

People only look at me as a Beatle, but my friends look at me as a whole person. That's how life works, but it's not bugging me anymore.

My adolescent feasting on books was a protective search for privacy and self that worked for me at the time, and later became habitual and delivered other benefits. I

Until you become different, you have not found yourself.

Where ever I go, there I am. Drunk.

every reader is, while he is reading, the reader of his own self. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument which he offers to the reader to enable him to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have perceived himself. And the recognition by the reader in his own self of what the book says is the proof of its veracity.

self and society are always interfused; there is no clear place where one ends and the other begins. Subjectivity is always caught up with intersubjectivity, personal experience awash with social and political meanings.

But I'm not running away. I'm running toward... toward adventure, toward discovery, toward diversity. And while I was in Mexico I discovered something intruiging: Once I leave the U.S., I am not bound by the rules of my culture. And when I am a foreigner in another country, I am exempt from the local rules. This extraordinary situation means that there are no rules in my life. I am free to live by the standards and ideals and rules I create for myself.

Il corpo faccia quello che vuole, io sono la mente.

The body does whatever it wants. I am not my body; I am my mind.

I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.

About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.

About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.

human beings are very narcissistic, they like to see themselves everywhere and be the foil for the rest of creation' (I, iv).

To possess possessions, a man will "sell himself" to have what another has, but it never dawns on him ~ that the more he gets, the less he keeps of himself.

What we do comes out of who we believe we are.

Your job is the relentless pursuit of who God made you to be. And anything else you do is sin and you need to repent of it.

You are not what you think you are. Instead of the form staring back at you when you look in the mirror, what you should imagine is your body as a collection of multiple dynamic ecosystems made up of very tiny, and very biologically diverse, organisms.

The only thing people love talking about more than themselves is their problems. By taking an interest in the problems and minutia of their day, you're already more interesting than 99% of the people they've ever met.

It's a myth that money changes you; money simply exaggerates your traits. Money will always and only make you more of what you already are.

Once we see an inner pattern of mind clearly and bring to it mindful awareness and acceptance, this in itself initiates the process of self-liberation.

Have recovered somewhat from massive, delicious, inundating influx of life memories. Man, it is soooooooooo goooooooooood to be ME again.

You can't choose, who you are. No matter how you struggle, some things will never change. And maybe they schouldn't.

I didn't lose my mind, it was mine to give away