Quotes About Self

An old woman looks in a mirror, recalls a little girl with a rag doll, and wonders what became of the little girl.

There is a public me and a private me, who, if they were separate people, probably wouldn't exchange Christmas cards.

If you aren't sure who you are, you might as well work on who you want to be.

It is not only possible to be the person you pretend to be, but there is less effort involved.

Of what use to get what you want if you must become someone else to get it.

Moque-toi d'une mauvaise réputation. Crains une bonne que tu ne pourrais pas soutenir.

Self-love is an ending, she said, and not a beginning. Love means love of the thing sung, not of the song or the singing.

But maybe you shouldn't wonder so much about his secret, he says. What's really important is finding your secret - something that becomes like a seed inside you - that will grow as you grow up.

Codependence allows us to survive physically but causes us to feel empty and dead inside. Codependence is a defense system that causes us to wound ourselves.

A large part of what we identify as our personality is in fact a distorted view of who we really are due to the type of behavioral defenses we adopted to fit the role or roles we were forced to assume according to the dynamics of our family system.

Codependence is being at war with ourselves - which makes it impossible to trust and Love ourselves

The sweetest sound to anyone's ears is the sounds of his own name.

Stalin, as many in the party soon began to perceive, was acting in the manner of a political boss. But we should take care not to assume that he saw himself in this light.

No good poem, however confessional is may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?

We're all born strangers to ourselves and each other, and we're seldom formally introduced.

N]ot my name, my secret idea of myself.

Remember, your own image and presence are materials you can control.

Do not accept the roles that society foists on you. Re-create yourself by forging a new identity

See Mastery as Salvation The misery that oppresses you lies not in your profession but in yourself! What man in the world would not find his situation intolerable if he chooses a craft, an art, indeed any form of life, without experiencing an inner calling? —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

For us, the split between our emotions and our cognition is a source of constant internal friction, comprising a second Emotional Self within us that operates beyond our will.

Somos criaturas que no soportan sentir que obedecen a una voluntad ajena. Si tus objetivos lo descubrieran, tarde o temprano se volverán contra ti.

Listen to Your Inner Authority

Any success that we have in life inevitably depends on some good luck, timings, the contributions of others, the teachers who helped us along the way, the whims of the public in need of something new. Our tendency is to forget all of this and imagine that any success stems from our superior self.

Daily Law: As Xenophon said, your obstacles are not rivers or mountains or other people; your obstacle is yourself. The 33 Strategies of War, Strategy 1: Declare War on Your Enemies—The Polarity Strategy